Farm & Pumpkins ~ Part 2

 Here are a few indoor shots.
-The kids doing crafts at the table together.
-Wresting, obviously that is an integral part to all cousin get togethers!
-More outdoor pics from the pumpkin patch and on the way to the pumpkin patch.

Farm & Pumpkins - Part 1

The last weekend in September my sister, Andrea, and I took a joint sister/cousin trip to Rapids with our kids to visit my folks and sister Jessica.

With the last weekend of September, Fall was already in full swing in all our houses and we had major pumpkins on the brain! My mom grows her own pumpkin patch so we excitedly piled in the van and drove up a few Saturday mornings ago.

About an hour after we pulled in, the rain started. Boo! The kids (and us big kids) were itching to be outside. I didn't get many inside pictures but I know all of us enjoyed my parents new and beautiful house We were excited to be there and help dictate the decorating (sorry mom!!).  :)

Here are part 1 of the pictures. All of which occurred on the 2nd day we were there.

Welcome Baby Aaron!

 Almost a month ago I had the pleasure and honor of attempting to capture my newest baby nephew in all his newness and cuteness in his newborn baby stage.

As you can tell in photo 3, my munchkins make it too easy to forget that they were once this tiny and sweet and innocent.

Nevertheless, I had a great time on my first attempt at a newborn shoot and I can't wait for the next one!!

Congrats again Walter family on your newest addition!

Happy Birthdays Grandma & Grandpa!

 A few pictures from our Gerlach family picnic celebrating Don & Carole's birthdays.

:)

September warm up shots

~~9.19.2013~

After a couple weeks sans camera, I had a pretty huge reason to get it out on 9-12-13. Our newest baby cousin was born! Well, this post isn't about Baby Aaron, but he was the reason I pulled my camera out this Friday afternoon. I needed to get warmed up for the big newborn shoot I had the following morning.

 (I really can't remember why Evan is shirtless... he's recently just started taking it off when he's hot. This has already started to stop naturally with Fall cooling him off).

Here are a few of my favorites.

An interactive zoo visit

 Whoa! I'm back! I've been busy snapping pictures and learning a new editing software as well as everything else with two small kids that keeps a mom busy everyday!

I'm trying to get caught up editing with new and more advanced software and learn more techniques at the same time!

Here are a few cute pictures from our trip to the zoo on September 1, yes, I'm over a month behind in sharing these!!

We had a great and unique time at the zoo on this trip. We didn't do our usual loop. In fact, we stayed in the Family Farm for the (pardon the pun) lion's share of our time during this visit. We got a rare glimpse at the larger birds, saw the Kohl's Theatre puppet/music show, and Evan participated in the interactive small mammal show.

It was a nice change! Preston's not quite there for these more interactive visits, but Evan really enjoyed himself.

The first picture of Evan with the eagle in the background was pretty cool. That was as close as he would do with a picture with the eagle. Yay America!

The camel picture was special becuase if you can't tell, the camels are actually swimming in their pond. That was a pretty cool thing to see.

The last is Evan with one of the elephants. They were pretty active under their new awning and I had to capture it!

Can't wait to share more of my latest photos. There are many coming!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lucas!