Halloween

Yeah, finally the Halloween post. There are photos of the pumpkin patch that we visited, the church we visited to actually buy our pumpkin (the ones that the pumpkin patch were a bit on the expensive side), and our neighborhood's Halloween parade. There are no photos of actual Halloween night because my mom took them trick or treating with their cousins since Mike and I were in Florida for a funeral. If I were a betting woman, I'd say Ceylese probably took some photos though. :-)

On the hayride.

Pickin' out pumpkins with DaDa.

At the church buying a reasonably priced pumpkin, sitting on a bail of hay.

Nicole wandering around.

Kaitlyn stopping to smile pretty for the camera. She's such a ham for the camera.

The church had this nice photo opp. Cute.

Kaitlyn in costume for the Second Annual Stoneybrook Halloween Parade.

Nicole in costume for the parade.

Parading down to the clubhouse.

Pictures!!!

This isn't the post I promised, but at least it's a post with photos. I promised Halloween, and I still haven't had a chance to download the pictures from my camera. Maybe later today...my work deadlines ended yesterday so I finally have a chance to catch up on my personal life.

Anyway, we had our holiday photos taken on Saturday. Yes, that early!!! Portrait Innovations is crazy in December as we learned last year (having had to reschedule our initial appt for another day since they were almost TWO HOURS behind schedule). Let me tell you, early November isn't that much better. This was only the second weekend that they had their holiday backdrop available, and it was already a zoo. Luckily Mike and I have learned that you don't go to Portrait Innovations on a weekend without two cars. As soon as the shoot is over, Mike goes home with the kids and I stay to pick out the pictures, get them printed and pay which can take up to another hour. And that my friends is why we take two cars. No way Kaitlyn and Nicole would have been "happy" just hanging out in a photo studio for another hour.

Since they give me a CD with my shoot, no downloading required!!! An easy picture post. Yippie. Here are a few. Oh, and don't you just love the cute outfits I picked. I found them at Children's Place. You can't see Nicole's skirt really well in any of these photos, but the outfits are the inverse of each other. Dressing girls is the best!



Above: The whole time, Kaitlyn kept putting her hands up to her face, which we of course didn't want. But then we wouldn't have ended up with this adorable photo!!! How cute!

Above: Hard to get a smile out of Nicole when she sees a camera. She smiles plenty in person. There's just something about the camera, but I think this was a pretty cute expression.

Above: We didn't order this one since the finger is in the way. It could be cropped, but then the quality would go down. It was just such a cute picture though, so I wanted to at least put it on the blog.

Above: And there's our Nicole again...not smiling. That's so "her" when it comes time for pictures though, so they're still cute pictures in my eyes.

Coming Soon...

...a post!!! I promise. Hopefully I can upload some photos during lunch. I've been SO busy at work with quarter end and our press release and 10Q. Then, on top of that, Mike's step father passed away suddenly on Monday, October 27th. He immediately went to Florida to be with his mom, and I made it down on Friday for the service only to turn right back around on Saturday to come home. Ordinarily my boss would have been really understanding and I probably could have taken more time to be with Mike and his mom; however, his dad passed away in his sleep Tuesday morning. So, basically the only two people at my company who do the quarterly SEC reporting both had family tragedies. Instead of him covering for me, it kind of turned out the opposite. I worked really hard last week to cover his absence but was still able to take one day to be with Mike's family where I needed to be.

Anyway, that's a long story for something that was supposed to be short....a post is on the way.