Happy Halloween!

Finally, here are all of our Halloween pictures (aside from the Pumpkins, of course.)

I admit. I was not great at taking Halloween pictures. But we have at least one of everyone in their costumes so that's at least good. (I also admit that part of it might have a little to do with this cute little lady distracting me from my regular photographic duties with her cute little face...my camera just keeps finding her. :) 

 Elise probably had more "Halloween clothes" than all of the boys ever have had all put together. :)

 Luke was hanging out with her and really excited about taking pictures with her.

 In case you haven't noticed, she loves to stick that little tongue out.

Pretty much all of my pictures of everyone in their costumes were at our family Halloween party.

Three generations of witches! (Heather was actually also a witch, but we never got a picture with us all together.)

I think this is the first year we have all done completely random and unrelated costumes (aside from us girls). Here we all are. Lance actually MADE his costume. Pretty impressive, huh? (I actually made Elise's and mine, but those were nothing compared to Lance's creation.) Then that's Joey the dragon, Luke as Luigi, and Mikey as Bumblebee the Transformer.

 My cute little witch

Little Eliza (as Dora)  loved just sitting there by Elise and taking pictures with her.

Kate and Mikey

 Here are Ben, Luke, Anna and Olivia in the front

 Olivia

 On our way into the ward Halloween party, where I did not take any other pictures...

 Mikey in his Halloween parade

On our way out to the neighborhood Chili party on Halloween night before trick-or-treating

 She loves grabbing faces

 See what I mean? Distracted from taking pictures of the other kids getting ready to trick-or-treat to just take a picture of Elise playing on the floor. But she's just so darling!

Happy Halloween!

Elise 7 Months!! (And 6, and 5...)

First off, this post is HUGE. On hind site, I should have probably broken it into three posts. But all the pictures are loaded and I ain't starting over!

Okay, per the ushe, I'm a little behind on posting stuff. Well, I guess a little more than a little this time! I can't believe I'm so behind on posting pictures of my baby chica. And even MORE I can't believe my baby is 7 months!! What the heck!? So here are a LOT of pictures. I want them all in my books so I'm posting them all. I really just can't get enough of her so I take pictures of her all day long. What can I say? I LOVE HER! :)

7 Months (Oct. 14):

 She has the pointiest little tongue and sticks it out a little to the side all the time! It's so funny. I was trying to capture that below. It's not great, but you can see it well enough.

 She is getting quite skilled at "crawling." It's a little more of a worm move/army crawl, but she can get where she wants to go.

 Checking out herself! Daddy is showing her a video of herself. She was enthralled.

 Go cougars!

 I was realizing that I hardly have any pictures of us together! This was the best I could do alone. I need to get Lance to pick up the camera now and then! :)

6 Months (Sept 14):

The little tongue coming out :)

Good little eater!

I just love her little face in each one of these...

 

It's hard to tell in a picture, but she was so dang cute in this dress

What? I know these pictures are all almost identical, but I love her face in each and every one...so I'm including them all. Because what does it hurt?

5 Months (Aug 14):

All put together...

 

Letting her hair down...

I know, the little lady has a lot of hair. It's fun, and she's adorable. Strangers on the street (or, you know, in my gym, at the grocery store. whatever.) stop and exclaim about her hair. It's fun. And it's always up in her cute single or double piggies. But I needed to document the free-flowing locks. It's kind of awesome.

The little lady loves her baths

And she LOVES her big brothers. (Well, maybe Mikey and Luke a little more than Joey at the moment since Joey likes to sit on her and "pats" her head a little too hard.) But no one can get her laughing like Mikey and Luke.

(On a side note, what the heck is up with Mikey looking so old!)

Before 5 months Elise was trying to grab all our food! So we finally let her have it. And she loved it.

Love her! Love her! Love her!