Family Pictures

I am frantically playing catch up right now as 2013 is over and I have tons of pictures I have yet to post that I need in my 2013 blog book. So brace yourself for a landslide of catch up posts for 2013.

 

For starters, we took family pictures in August. We were fairly pleased with them even though Elise was not in the smiling mood. She was at least willing to sit still and look straight ahead. And, well, with her cute face, she still pulls off a pretty cute picture. ;) 

 

Anyway, here are the results:

 

This is the one we chose as the best.

 

 But I still liked Joey's little face in this one.

In this pose, this one was pretty good.... 

But this one was the best. 

In these ones of just the kids, Joey's face is pretty much the only one that changes much...and it changes A LOT.

 

 This was the final one of the kids.

My Sweet Joe:

Love that kid :) 

My Cute Luke:

 My Grown-Up Mikey:

My Darling, Baby Elise:

She's just so cute ;) 

A few of just the girls:

 

School Pictures 2013

 2nd Grade

Kindergarten

Pre-school

 Joey's school had a photographer that did a little mini-shoot with each child so his pictures are a little more creative. It was great!

Halloween!

 Our family Halloween party was at our house this year. I meant to take pictures of the whole house and all the kids and decorations. This is the only picture I took. Such is this plight of the hostess. :) But here are my treats offered. :)

And Lance was at it again with the pumpkins! He never fails to impress.  The kids choose what they want and he makes it happen....EXCEPT....Mikey actually did most of his! We were quite proud. :) Lance guided him through the process and helped here and there, but he did great!

Mikey's:

Luke's:

 Elise's: (She loves Hugs, so we chose this for her.)

Lance's: (Alien vs. Predator for those, like me, not as familiar with such things.)

Joey's:

 Just wanted to prove that she didn't hate her costume. She was willing to wear it around all day! Don't be fooled by the pictures that follow. 

School parade: 

White Ninja, Luke!

 And Red Ninja, Mikey

 Everyone ready for the big night! I know the Ninjas suddenly look a little like Sumo Ninjas.... We forgot to get pictures before we made them put sweatshirts under their costumes.

And Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates. I kind of think he made the cutest Jake ever :)

 And the tightness of the costume made it that much more awesome. ;) (It was a 4T so I don't know what the deal was!)

 Back to Elise's costume. It may appear as though she doesn't like her costume, but it's actually posing for the pictures that was the problem. Pure torture. She just wanted to get out the door. :)

See? Now she's fine. :)

 As per the ushe, I answered the door all night. This was the absolute BEST tick-or-treater I had! Her little voice asking for candy, was the stinking cutest thing ever. :)