Another Beautiful November Day

After church today we decided to drive up to Palos Verdes and take some pictures of the kids, especially since we have had such beautiful weather lately. We took some pictures up there at the library when Emme was just a couple of weeks old (to use for her birth announcement) and I thought it would be cute to recreate the same poses---the kids were not so cooperative though! Wiggles, running, asking for candy and Emme making these crazy laughing noises! We did get a couple of cute shots, but I think it will take a few more photo sessions, and maybe borrowing a nicer camera from my F-I-L to get some shots for a Christmas card. (I need a faster shutter speed so I can catch those fleeting moments when both the kids are looking at me!!!)

We had a really hard time getting her to look at us!

One of the crazy faces Emme kept making---

I finally gave up on taking pictures of them both and just took pictures of Owen.

Doppelganger

Emme makes this face that we call "serious face". We all get a huge kick out of it...she does it on command and it is really hilarious when she tries to do it while smiling!

While Scott was reading bedtime stories to Owen the other night he found Emme's doppelganger!

See a similarity?? (By the way, it is really hard to try and catch the exact face she makes on camera-this is as close as it gets!)

HALLOWEEN

We had such a fun Halloween this year (not that they aren't all fun!).

It all started with some pumpkin carving a couple days before Halloween. Owen and Emme loved squishing the pumpkin guts and throwing the seeds all over the floor. Oh, and they loved carving too! Owen made a scary face pumpkin, Emme (with some help) made a butterfly, Scott made a Frankenstein.

Owen had a costume parade at school on Friday that Emme and I went to see. He had fun walking around and showing off his cool army man costume. There were some pretty cute little kids there!

We had trunk-or-treat at church on Saturday night and the kids came home with soooo much candy! Emme was a little confused with what was going on. I was helping her practice saying "trick-or-treat" earlier in the day, but she just wasn't getting it! After the first few cars she took a look in her bag and got the biggest smile on her face!! She started giggling and pulled out a lollipop that immediately went into her mouth. I don't think I saw her without candy in her mouth the rest of the night. (I also found her eating chocolate the next morning in the corner of the front room! After that, the candy bag was placed on top of the pantry!)

Look at my cute cupcake!!

Tough army man!

On Halloween we decided to not take our kids out trick-or-treating but we did invite a couple of friends over to hang out (so the kids wouldn't feel like they missed out on Halloween because it was on a Sunday!).

We had tacos and root beer floats, watched Nightmare Before Christmas, and made our first deep fried Oreos and candy bars (Snickers, Kit-Kats and Reese's). The Oreos and Reese's were amazing!! I think we found a new Halloween tradition...deep frying our kid's Halloween candy! (It may sound gross, but don't knock it until you've tried it! We made fun of deep fried Oreos for years!)

Look how much Jessica and Mike love the deep fried Oreos!