Halloween Costumes

 

Talmage as OB1

 

Anya as Hermione.  

The darkened eyebrows made all the difference-- she also looks more like me when I was little.

And Talmage getting in the shot.  But it does look like they are battling.  Who do you think would win?

Family Pictures

While on vacation we had family pictures taken.  Here are a few of my favorites.

 

This one cracks me up. The photographer asked the kids to jump. After repeated tries this is what we ended up with.

Grove of the Patriarchs

Cooper Dancing

We have a lot of videos of Cooper dancing, singing, or talking while Talmage is playing his violin.  I can't post most of them though because the files are too big.  Here is one that's small enough, though it is not the best.  All the talking/singing sounds are coming from Cooper.  He is a very fun bird and Talmage loves him.  He makes practicing the violin more enjoyable though less productive.

Raking Leaves

We had a small amount of time to play as a family one Saturday and this is what Anya chose to do.  She was so happy to have the whole family out creating a huge pile for her to jump in.
Aaron was in charge of picture taking and putting the leaves in the yard waste bin at the end.  Anya got us all started and was willing to use the worst rake to keep everyone happy, Talmage did just enough raking to qualify for a few jumps but for the most part he doesn't think yard work is his thing, and I got to use the best rake and move lots of leaves.

 This is how Anya thinks we should dress to do yard work.

I made that skirt for her birthday and she wears it every weekend.

 

Talmage loves posing for pictures.

 

 And this is proof that I do exist.  Usually I'm the one behind the camera so we don't have many pictures of me.  And that's ok.