The time of year has arrived for family pictures!! I really debated waiting for the baby but decided to just get them done. I wanted to order Christmas cards and get as much finished as possible before baby #5 arrives! However that meant I was 37+ weeks pregnant, oh well! Savanna was nice enough to take them for us again. She did great, as usual. I couldn't have asked for more!
Some of our more genuine smiles!
The boys!
All the kiddos. I loved that they held Bentley's hand and we didn't even suggest it!
Daddy told them to smile as big as they could!
It really bothered Damon that Radley put his hands in his pockets, but I thought it was adorable. I guess he feels more comfortable that way.
Such a cutie!!
Such a cheesy and forced smile. We tried to get a relaxed one but didn't succeed. (Don't worry before printing this I will cut out the high-waters, haha)
Thanksgiving week is one our kids look forward to all year because it means late nights and cousins!!! They also like pumpkin pie, but mostly they just like playing with cousins. Damon was especially excited this year because he knew he would be able to play a lot of football!!
Damon bottom left corner trying to make a defensive stop. I didn't take any pictures of them playing, which I should have done, but our kids we definitely noticed for their speed this year!
Some take their football more serious than others...
The usual side of these boys!
The Payne's were not able to stay all week because of football playoffs, but we took advantage of the time we got! One night after a fish fry at the lake house, Tyce, Luke, & Bruce came to our house to spend the night. Radley and Bruce were out before we made it home! I took the boys out of school early the next day so they could all play as much as possible.
My pie crust adventures didn't turn out so well this year... I realized I didn't have the right pie pans to make the decorative crusts I wanted. Next year I'll have to try something new. However, the other two pies a blueberry and chocolate meringue sure tasted good even though they didn't look very good either.
Bentley had a great time with cousins too. She realized Landry liked lipstick just as much as she does!
Kenney made a new chicken feeder so we wouldn't have to get more food every day.
When no one notices your pants are on backward until you're already sitting in church!!! Hahahaha
Some friends from church got me a cake because I had to attend a stake meeting the night of my birthday
Kenney took the kids to the park and took a few videos of Radley doing the monkey bars. His body control is pretty impressive!
We had a lot of leaves in our yard, as usual. It was a family effort to get them all raked up. We gathered all of them under one tree, and then the kids took turns jumping into the pile. The first day they started gathering wasn't quite as successful as the second day, but we got it done. Then Kenney mulched them all up!
Making sure Daddy didn't need help.
Grumpy pants even had to take a turn with the rake.
I'm not so sure who's in control, but he managed to dump his load every time before bringing back the wheelbarrow.
Not quite the pile of leaves we were talking about jumping into, but she didn't mind!
Oh so helpful...
These two are so funny together.
Such pretty colors.
Ready to jump!
Bentley jumping out of the tree.
Belly flop
All buried
That chin, haha
Getting the leaves out of her pants!!
They love jumping out of the tree, and we love that all the boys can climb up without help!!
I didn't get many pictures of George's visit to our house, but it was the best one yet! Bentley and George got along so well and had tons of fun. They raced across the living room, played with cars, went outside for a bit, got a special treat a Allsups, and of course played with Playdoh. We wish they could have stayed longer, but hopefully their love/hate relationship will be in the past from now on!!
Taking their Playdoh seriously, and sharing really well.
Cheese!!! I'm not sure if their hair or their smiles are worse!!
