How can you not be crazy about this girl?!!

Halloween

I have been seeing a lot of people still posting about Halloween, so I think this is still relevant. Ben and Spence were Blue Ranger and Red Ranger, (y'know, from THE POWER RANGER fame, in case ya didn't know.) And Annie was a frog. Yeah, didn't want to spend any money, so I borrowed it from a friend, and it was cute - so I went with it. Although not as girly as I could have or should have gone for my first girl's first Halloween. There's always next year. So darn irresistible though - I just want to smoosh her up! (with kisses, I mean.)

And here's our little under age cow out for a joy ride. (Okay, not a cow costume, or having anything to do with Halloween really, but I thought I'd sneak it in, b/c it's "udderly" cute. Yeah, that's right, I just made an udder joke.)Love my little Red Ranger! And he had a great time trying to figure out the whole, people giving him candy, and then going on to get more at the next person's house - thing. Moving on was kinda a tricky concept for an almost 3-yr-old.

This one is a good shot of the whole outfit. It's quite cute. Cape and all. Much higher quality than Ben's $10 jump suit from Walmart, this one was given to us by our next door neighbor 3 years ago. Very convenient choice for the Spen dog.
This is a pretty good action shot of the Trick-or-Treating. Totally focused on the candy - no time for annoying mom trying to get MORE pictures as usual.
Stud.

Lest there be any confusion, Doug is white. But, we blurred racial lines this year to go to a party as Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Doug was worried about offending - so sorry if ya are. We figured bronzer would be a bit better than like, thick brown paint - but he ended up just looking Guido and fake-baked! oops. An improvement on Kanye regardless... (Oh SNAP!) I don't know if it was the shiny black shirt with the rolled up short sleeves, or the gold chains that put him over the edge (we studied his VMA outfit with precision - and yes, the shirt front was really tucked in all haphazardly for real). At least our props were good.
And just a couple of the boys for fun. Happy Fall!

My Favorite Recent Family Pic

Who knew my kids could actually smile? I know this is not actually RECENT, per se, but I swear I will put some new pics of Annie on here very soon. I am FINALLY almost done going through the 2000 + pictures we've taken since June. I know, it's sad that's what keeps me from blogging. Pictures. Ugh.

But anyway, here's a sneak peak of pics to come...