halloweening 2011

this was the first year that Rupe was really old enough to be involved in and enjoy halloween. and he loved it! which overjoyed my heart, because so do I! i won't use this as a platform to go on and on about my beliefs surrounding halloween, but I will say that we love pumpkins, we love dressing up and we love candy and we also love Jesus, so suck it nay sayers.

rupe is obsessed with pumpkins! I think he comes over to the table and "plays" with our pumpkin every day. we also watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and he has asked to watch every day since, except he calls it the Pumpkin show.

our clean boy would only use a spoon... thanks daddy! ;D

rupe requested we carve an owl which is awesome and bizarre as he hasn't loved owls as much as he used to, but we found this fairly simple pattern online so I was happy :D

we ventured down to Victoria to do halloweening with the cousins, all three of them as one more has been added to their number! sweet little baby girl Anna Grace. we are glad she is here and Rupe is fairly in love which bodes well for the arrival of his very own baby sister.

i'm not sure if it gets much cuter than these three together, although I'm sure their baby siblings will add to the cuteness in the future :D

little shark boy. rupe saw a pic with his tongue out by accident and decided to replicate it... multiple times.

he was fairly hilarious during the trick or treating. we went down to the village in oak bay where most of the stores had opened their doors to fill our bags with goodies! rupe was thrilled about the candy but had a very solemn, I don't know what's happening, kind of face most of the time.

sweet little Anna bear

we made it to a few houses close grammie and grampy's house. rupe had gotten a little more into it by then and was running up to the doors behind his cousins saying, "shark too, shark too!" and when his costume was acknowledged would growl at the candy givers.

i'm so very glad that we live close enough to family that we can do fun things like this! and oh how that boy loves his cousins!

pumpkin patch 2011

forget the costumes, forget the trick or treating, forget the spooky decorations, forget the candy, wait maybe don't forget the candy, give me the pumpkin patch any day! it is by far my favourite halloween tradition! or fall tradition I suppose. it's no surprise to those who know me that fall is my favourite season. and this year particularly, pregnancy does weird things to me. I have had the biggest compulsion to be one of those mom's who has bins for every season/holiday filled with decorations for the house. I have resisted for the most part, but some very cute decorative pumpkins and owls have been purchased and are being displayed proudly. also the desire to eat/drink everything pumpkin has been ridiculously strong. anyways, as for this post it's all about the pumpkin patch with our good buddies Arden, Bobby and Cason. Grandma came too but she narrowly dodged the camera. sneaky Grandma. is two years in a row a tradition? if the answer is yes, then we have an tradition with them of packing up the kiddos and heading to the pumpkin patch out in Cedar.

{buddies}

{another perk of fall, amazing lighting for my snap happy side}

{so funny, for all the comments we get about Rupert looking like me, he IS his father. same facial expressions right down to occasionally talking out the side of their mouths. crazy boys}

My precious boy is growing up so much. His little personality comes out more and more each day. and for a little boy who's speech is a little bit harder to understand, he is a very expressive kid! and we are thankful for that. because honestly I love that we have a kid with a sense of humor and heart as sweet as his and I would take them over perfect diction any day!

{ma mere nana : translation : come here Cason :D}

this was one of my favourite kind of days, sunny but crisp and it was nice to be able to get outside! my looming belly has kept us from taking any kind of big walks lately so we are fairly restricted to the back yard or small park down the road. and rainy days don't help either. so getting to spend so much time outside running around was a special treat!

{Cason showing off his muscles}

{precious little pumpkin patch kids}

a big highlight of the day was riding on the tractor. not that we are on the actual tractor, but if you ask Rupert we were.

{white pumpkins are my joy. I was so thrilled to find them amongst the orange. doesn't it always feel like you've found a treasure when something is not the colour it's supposed to be?and yes if you saw the field you would see that there were loads of them, but that's besides the point. pumpkins are supposed to be orange, and this one wasn't, so it's a treasure end of story}

{brief public service announcement, my boy is ridiculously cute and that's why there is four photos instead of one following...}

{apparently Rupert and Cason got tired of my snap happiness}

{strong boys}

{daddies and the crew}

{Rupe saying hi to the ostriches from afar}

{Cason is braver :D}

this kid seriously cracks me up! Such a little poser, how could I not take a hundred pictures? as well as his beautiful momma. we are so glad to have them as friends and get to watch our little boys, and new babies (she's due 10 days before me) grow up together.

hard to believe that next year we will have our little bambinos with us as well and that our boys will be three! it goes by so fast and I am so thankful that I'm able to stay home with him. makes the mad house that we live in with little children running in circles worth it! well child is awake so I suppose I should close this off and go cuddle, man it's a hard life. happy falling!

Fall photo shoot 2011

Oh Fall how I love thee! I think Fall is by far my favourite time of year... especially for taking pictures of my boy. Every fall thus far we have done a little Fall photo shoot with the boy. You can find last years here and his very first here.

And here is this years. I amazed at the differences and also the similarities! So anyways, just photos for now, I'm just proud of myself for putting up a blog! Enjoy.