halloween night and feeding the geese

boo to you.


just kidding.  i totally forgot what was going on there, but nonetheless, they were having fun with their papa c...


and mama c. too.


halloween night is so much fun!  emma rocked her pebbles outfit...


and carson rocked his too.


bamm.  bamm!


our attempt at a family photo.  it gets harder with each additional child...


our out takes were funniest!




here's emma with her mini me.


love him.


it was so exciting to have our c's with us for this fun holiday!


aunt lindy joined in on our craziness too.


carson was waiting for the witches to fly, because according to the five little pumpkins, they should've been flying!


and per the request of miss emma…we carved pumpkins.  tinker bell for miss e….


and a train for mr. c...


the weather was beautiful that weekend, so we fed our local canadian geese.






and played at the park.  that's one of their most favorite things.


little landon is oh so sweet...


he gets so much love.  whoever said that the third child gets neglected is wrong.  oh so wrong :)

milestones, picnics, smiles, boundaries, and a little celebration

i bet you're thinking that the boundaries refers to one of my sweet littles.  well, you're wrong...ha!  the boundaries are for me.  i'm the one that needs them.

without them, i don't get a whole lot done.  you might be wondering what exactly i'm talking about.  let's go with everything.  it applies to all of it.

let's take laundry.  i let it pile up.  not intentionally, but it happens.  and with five of us, it turns into a holy terror.  so, i made a rule.  laundry on mondays...all put away by sunday.  now, it gets done.  crazy, but true.

now for the blog.  i let it go too.  and i don't want to.  i like it here.  and i like watching my kids grow up.

so, here's my new rule...blogging every thursday...to recap the week.  let's see if it sticks.

it's thursday, and i'm here, so i guess that's step one :)

rewind to last weekend....


we all got together to celebrate my sweet sister ashley and her upcoming wedding to cameron.  we would have probably named landon...cameron, if it wouldn't have been for the ring and the date :)


it was a rare occasion for all of us to be together and we all enjoyed our day.  none of us wanted to leave, but we had a little one with us and quite a drive home :)


i actually have some more pics to share...i got a new camera!!  cue the hallelujah chorus.  my sweet hubby bought it for me.  i'm thinking he figured...buy her the camera or check her into the looney bin...seriously.

i swear, a camera is a part of my soul, and i just can't live without one...especially with a new baby in the house.


we all love him.


sweet emma was my first shoot.  i owed her a seven year birthday shoot...last month, but i had a baby :)    it tends to throw things a bit off kilter.  so, here we are...you can see some of the pics here.


next up was my little nugget...


he was due for his one month pics...sigh.  they grow too quickly.


he's still officially one month, but more like 1.8 months :)  hmmm...maybe i need a rule for that too.


he's so sweet and snuggly...


he's our little bucket of love.


he was quite cooperative too...


love the age where they don't talk back...


and you don't have to bribe them with candy :)  i think this one's my fave...


i took these two to the park last night for a picnic.  rob was out of town, so i didn't cook :)  the train came, which is the. most. exciting. thing. ever. for my little boy blue.  it made his night.


it's the little things that make little ones happy.  love that.


little things like raspberries.  they are his favorite.  he puts them on his fingers like claws.  he's the only little dude in the whole world that can turn the word claws into a 14 syllable word.  seriously.


i shot this one and loved it...


then i shot this one and loved it even more.  baby smiles are the best.

here & there

rob took the kids there for the weekend...


while landon and i stayed here...


my camera was giving me fits...


so then, i finally threw in the towel and enjoyed my nice. quiet. weekend.  it was so quiet.  did you hear me?  so incredibly quiet.  my brain had time to think and recharge.  it was wonderful.

i didn't get done what i thought i could...i think i forgot just how much time it takes to nurse a baby.  it's a full time job folks.  i added up the hours myself.  so, we nursed and snuggled and i did get a few things checked off of my list...


the kids played hard...


so hard that this is them napping...


and they swam...in their clothes and ate s'mores and did all of the things that you're supposed to do when you go camping.  and grand-dad met them, so rob had an extra set of hands.  thank goodness for that.


they ate lots of yummy stuff...


and one night, a raccoon ran off with the entire bag of oreos.  emma told me the story when they got home.  she said, "he took the. whole. bag, mom."  and i said, "really?"  and she said, "yes, he took the whole bag....double stuffed."