Andrew 18 months

Okay, so he's actually 19 months, but this was the portrait session that was supposed to happen at 18 months, so we're just going to pretend that it is a month ago.
To say that getting a good picture of Andrew at this age is difficult is the understatement of the century, but we did manage to get a few cute ones. These are my 3 favorites of him.

Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween!
This afternoon, we took Tinkerbell and Peter Pan to Trunk-or-Treat at our church.

We played some games,

Genna got her face painted (I still can't believe she sat still this long!),

got a pink dog balloon,

got lots of candy and prizes, and had fun!

Later, we did a little trick-or-treating with some friends.
We had a great time even though it was a pretty long day. Hopefully, everyone will sleep good tonight!

Halloween parade and party

Anxiously awaiting the Preschool Parade!

Here comes "Ne-Nee"! She's so sensitive to the sun, so she's covering her eyes.

She asked me later why we didn't come to the parade...I told her we were waving and yelling her name, but I guess she was just distracted by all of the other people. Andrew was very bothered that she didn't come and see him.

Later, at the class party...

Patiently waiting for the candy swap...

Giggling girls...

Genna passing out her candy to her classmates...

They played a game called Bobbing for Doughnuts. They had to eat the powdered doughnuts without using their hands.

Genna's messy face after the doughnut game...

Carving pumpkins

I haven't figured out how to take good pictures in the kitchen with this light fixture...
Anyway, Thursday night, we carved pumpkins! Genna was very excited! So was Andrew (notice him trying to climb up into the chair behind Genna)!

This is about when she said, "No, Daddy, I don't want to get my hands dirty..."

So, we decided to take some silly pictures while he cleaned out the inside of the pumpkin.

The finished projects!

Fishing

Last weekend, we went to Memama and Grandaddy's house to visit. On Saturday, we spent most of the morning fishing. Genna caught one fish and was satisfied with that. She was not too interested in catching any more.

The pond is low right now because of the lack of rain.

Genna introducing Andrew to her fish.

Brian's big catch...a 6 1/2 pound bass...

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday afternoon, we headed to our favorite pumpkin patch that we've been to for the past 3 years. Let me just say that Friday late afternoon is the perfect time to do this. Saturdays are crowded and weekday mornings sometimes have school field trips, so this was the least crowded that I have ever seen it! It was great!

Family pic on the hayride out to the pumpkin patch.

Trying to get a cute picture with Mama...The sun was a little too bright for Genna.

I wanted to get a cute fall picture of the kids. This is probably the best picture of the 2 of them if that gives you any indication of how this went...

Can you tell what these next 3 pictures have in common???

Andrew did NOT want to sit still even for a second!

He picked up this corn stalk and had a great time swinging it around and hitting things with it.

Genna playing on the big hay bale.

Andrew in the pumpkin patch...still with his corn stalk.

Are you strong???

Show me your muscles!
(while eating a pb&j sandwich)

Andrew thought this was hilarious!

This has nothing to do with this blog post, but I thought it was a really good picture to share...