Be Still My Heart

{Baby C on her due date--12 days old}

A huge heartfelt THANK YOU for all of the wonderful comments, phone calls, visits, surprise packages in the mail, yummy meals, play-dates for the older kiddos, carpools, lovely gifts, sweet and tiny outfits for sweet and tiny newborns, childcare, movies on loan, grocery trips, and love. We couldn't have done it with out your help.

More pictures to come. We introduced baby C to the studio yesterday- just a simple, quiet outing with M and C while the big girls were at school. C was amazing to photograph and was such a good sport. We're off to a good start. I have plenty of photos from the first (almost) 2 weeks that I hope to share when I have a minute.

{3 days old and only 24 hours a day to sleep}

Pumpkin Patch

Get 'em while they're orange!

We chose THE windiest day to go and find three special pumpkins.

{For A. it was quite easy to choose the perfectly shaped pumpkin. It was just a bit on the heavy side so she required a bit of assistance during the lifting part.}

{phew! Now she won't blow away since she's holding that giant pumpkin!}

{M. quickly found one just the right size for him. He kept reminding us that he knew how to say the word "pump-kin"}

{S. took her time, nearly blew away in the wind, searched near, searched far . . . and then we negotiated to settle on one that could be considered "nearly" perfect.}

{this image demonstrates how windy it was, but not how COLD the temperature was. This girl is determined to go with out a jacket most of the time, and she claims she just isn't cold. She definitely doesn't have my genes! My extremities are always cold.}

{thank you for joining us on our pumpkin patch adventure!!}

We purchased the three pumpkins for ? cents per pound and got all three for less than $6. I love a great deal! I guess we'd better figure out a time to carve them for Halloween now!!

Tricks and Treats: Halloween 2007

I have many lists in my life. I have "should do's" "have to's" "want to's" and "will do's." I decided to endulge in a little "want to" time and sort through a few pictures from yesterday:

{a quick visit to Grandma & Grandpa's house . . . can you tell who is thrilled to be part of this photo?}

{Grandpa raked up the biggest pile of leaves EVER . . . just for the kids to play in. I even jumped in, and felt like I kid myself. Matthew was delighted with all of the crunchiness of his leafy mound. Our visit was longer than planned because I lost my car keys. After searching through the biggest pile of leaves EVER, we realized the keys were locked inside the car. A little help from AAA and 2 hours later we were finally home to greet Daddy-0 and ready to commence trick-or-treating. Good one, Amy. }

{Cool tree, great candy. My favorite trick-or-treating snap so far.}

{Spooky.}

{A. and the horse . . . actually she is supposed to BE the horse. Confusing but cute costume.}

{Loving interaction between my girls . . . lucky capture!}

{She's the toughest, sweetist li'l cowgirl around!}

{Watch out! This horse BITES!}

{This is M. in his "Mom got carried away bidding on a Tom Arma limited edition zebra costume on ebay" outfit. Isn't he the perfect zebra though?}

Now onto November. . . and I will share some photos from the cabin just as soon as I can. Promise.