halloween 2010.

We had an awesome Halloween year!! After 3 trips to the disney store and several mindchanges, Reese decided to be Cinderella, but not just Cinderella, she had to be Cinderella Bride...really? We even bought pocahontas as a backup but she was so cute as Cinderella Bride, we stuck with it. We all hung out at our house, the entire family, mom cooked and then we headed to our church's trunk or treat festival. Reese loved it!! Here's some pics...
Love the fall at our house, the pumpkins, mums (which are sadly, dead now...)

Close up of Cinderella...

with her bouquet...

Dancing poses...

more dancing...

Baby Penn as Nemo (the side view)...

Our two favorites...

more Nemo...

The night before they had their skeleton pj's on Gigi bought them and Reese had to do some posing...

so her...

Two cuties together, I love this pic of them...

Headed to trunk or treats...

In line going around...

Gigi with her babies! No one is loved more than her...

Fat me with Reese & her favorite guy...

Reese & her Gigi...

Hanging out...

After Boo did the bounce house/slide with her...

We came home, I literally fell asleep and mom took her to Isabella's Gigi's to trick or treat with her (her best friend) and Reese had a blast!! She came home and Dallas and I had to pretend to be trick or treaters and ring the doorbell, she then had to look out the window before opening the door and giving us candy. She is a trip!! Next year will be even better!!

tea party at bedtime.

We got home from ballet last night and Reese (in a last ditch effort to prolong her bedtime) set up a tea party for just her & gigi. She was in heaven. (Gigi had to accept a call from Boo during their high tea...) so I snapped a quick pic of this moment. I've been missing way too many of these the past several months...

candyland.

Her new love...candyland. We have all played it (literally) 5 times a day. Papa was the lucky one this time around and thankfully he enjoys it. Reese is so lucky to have the best grandparents that play princess, lemonade stand and candyland til they fall out.

By the way, we have a team!! We are headed to the White Sox! Spring Training in Arizona so Daddy will be far away from us (since we can't go this year with baby mac #2 due in March) but AAA is in Charlotte! Whoo hoo!!

our room.

I've wanted to share this forever and finally shot some pics of our bedroom. Last fall we did a "rekindle" shoot with my friends and two fab photogs and I wanted to find a cool way to display them. I love it and Reese is obsessed! She LOVES to look up & see mommy & daddy "hugging" on the wall. (Although, in the one where I am resting my head on Dallas she asked why I was sleeping and not feeling very good...)

Look at me blogging again!! Oh how I've missed it!!

worker bee.

Since I was leaving for Arizona on Wednesday (I'm here for some photo shoots with some favorite clients!) I made Tuesday my family time/cleaning day (plus Reese had a teacher work day) so it was a fun day together with lots accomplished! Anyhoo, I gave Dallas a honey do list and while I was placing an order I asked him to "sweep" the back deck. His shadow followed him and the next thing I know, I hear the blower. I look out and our 3 year old is being outsourced for home improvement jobs! He was standing inside laughing at her (bc she was laughing hysterically that she could make things fly)...

Unsupervised, these two are TROUBLE.

pumpkin carving with gigi

I've been working so much that I miss out on SO many things in the fall but the other night (while I was editing the night away) I heard Gigi and Reese having fun in the kitchen and this is what I found...melts my heart. They were carving Reese's pumpkin with her princess pumpkin carving kit (thanks to our awesome neighbors that BOOed us this week!!) These two are inseparable and have so many great memories together. Love my girls...

Fall Festival at school

This week, Reese had her fall festival at school and she was beyond excited to dress up with all her friends! They have had the cutest dress up days and her stinky mama has missed the pic opp and has nothing to show for it so I was sure to get some on Tuesday. We snapped a few in the garage before Dallas and I took her to school. After hours at the Disney store, she decided on Cinderella Bride (couldn't just be regular everyday Cinderella...) and she lights up with all the hair, glitter and princess adornment...

posing...

Typical Reese. I really look forward to working around her "posing" for her fall pics this year...

At school they played games to win candy. Each class gets their own 30 minutes of play...

Fishing...

Daddy helped...

beanbag toss...

Reese & her bff Abby...

She loves Brookly too...

Lining up to leave and Reese had to compare candy totals with Elizabeth...

Sitting in her classroom before they were dismissed...

She had a blast!! Lots more pics from this week. As usual, we had a fun, family packed weekend and I actually took some pics! yay!! I'll blog them this week!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween week!

I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever be back to devoted blogging again. Guess we'll see. We have been super busy but I have had no desire to have my camera out since I am working so much this fall. Sounds so bad. Reese is going to wonder if we left the house when she was three. We have! Reese is as busy as ever! She is with Gigi at the farm, playing with friends, school. We have been running the roads! I am in the busiest season of shooting, so I miss out on a lot. We did have Lee, Ashley & Lux come visit this past weekend so we grilled out, played at the house, then headed over to Southern Belle Farms (I swear it's the best in Georgia) for the girls to have some fall fun!

Luckily, it's our friends farm and literally a mile away, so Reese has successfully been there every weekend. Last weekend she went with Gigi, Penn and Gigi's friend and her granddaughter. This time she had Lux:

Here they are eating at the house before we left...

Reese posing...

Ashley and Lux were in front of us on the cow train...

The Mitchell family...

The girls (with the nest seats) watching the pig races (Reese LOVES them!!)...

Making the ducks swim in the water...

Looking at the pigs...

This they never wanted to leave (and we all nearly peed our pants watching our children fly across the air)...

Feeding the goats...

Daddy's helping them with the tricycles in the grass...

Reese on the cow train in front of me...

A few weekends ago, Daddy came down to go with us to another farm that has lots of fun kids stuff and so we could get some good pumpkins...

Loving on Papa...

They had a bouncing thing too that Dallas had to do with her...

Here's a few of baby Penn. He is literally here every weekend while D & Boo & my Dad are at Georgia games (Dallas and I are not that devoted) and we love him so much!!

Out at the farm...

Hopefully, I'll take some more pics soon! Reese loves school everyday and has amazed us with what she knows. I've got to video her. She can say the pledge of allegiance, the Christian pledge, the pledge to the bible, spell lots of words, cut with her scissors so good...the girl loves it!! Lots going on here! Hope everyone is having a great fall!!