Fall Portraits

It was a beautiful fall day so I took the opportunity to snap some nice pictures of the kiddos.  I wasn't planning ahead so they are all just in their after school clothes. (The weeds and burn pile are such nice fall colors, I think they make good backgrounds even though they're weeds and rejected logs...)  I'll save the best ones for the Christmas card.  :)

 

Filed Under Things I Never Thought I'd Say

"Don't use your mouth to flush the toilet!  That's gross!"

Self Portrait of the guilty party.

Stripes

Thomas seems to have missed out on this outfit.

Samuel

 Philip

Nicholas

Not looking so similar in this one.....

Four Little Stinkers

Samuel was only a month old for his 1st Halloween so he didn't really dress up but everyone else has been this skunk for their 1st Halloween!

Nicholas

 Philip

 Julia

 Thomas

Happy Halloween

Philip slept through pumpkin carving and so did Nicholas (praise Jesus!) which made pumpkin carving not so bad.  I had good intentions of carving Philip's with him later but we didn't get to it.  I like the Frankenpumpkin anyway.

 I forgot to snap a picture of them all together due to the difficulty getting Samuel's on and off.  Jeremy made his, I attached ears to a head band for Julia and made Thomas's creature power suit.

Halloween 2013
Julia-cat, Samuel-Lego minifigure, Thomas-Martin from PBS's WildKratts, Philip-John Deere policeman (note the JD hat, this is what makes the policeman specifically JD), and Nicholas squeezed into the skunk outfit after all!

Better Than TV

The dryer

 The siding guy

 Oh and for me too.  Watching this cute boy is way better than TV!

Saint Celebrations

We went to a saint celebration at the convent where two of my old college roommates live and had a ball as usual.  I find it so peaceful and easy to pray in their chapel.  I love taking my children there so they don't think a convent is some weird place where only the holiest dare to go.  Normal ladies live there- they are striving to be holy just like the rest of us, except they have chosen to dedicate their lives to God as His brides.  A beautiful vocation!

Here we are with "my" sisters.

Samuel's class did an All Saints Day presentation after Mass on Thursday.  They dressed up as their patrons so Samuel Joseph went as St. Joseph.  He thought it would have been cool to dress Nicholas up as Baby Jesus since Joseph is often depicted carrying the Infant.  Nicholas vetoed so lilies and a hammer were sufficient.  :)

 I love Catholic Schools!