The dreaded yearly photos!! Minus a few hiccups with shoes, everyone did really well this year. They really got into individual shots and wanted their picture taken over and over. Keyan and Kelli helped us out by snapping most of the pictures for us. I can't complain for a free photographer and trying to get 7 of us looking our best!
The best we got!
She loved family pictures
Best pictures we've gotten out of him for a few years!
Such a poser and the most photogenic.
Such a cutie
Love these boys!
So happy
Our 5 biggest blessings (most of the time, haha)
"Look a squirrel!" And they literally went running. Sometimes I wonder if we have kids or dogs, and that's when I realize, at times, they aren't much different!
Trying to catch the squirrel after it ran up the tree.
Just hanging out
Makes pull ups look so easy!
Our only other option
Sisters!!
All the girls
This girl was posing all over the place, she couldn't stop. She loved taking pictures!!
I think I always forget how many Halloween activities there are each year. We started with the fall festival at school. There was downtown trick-or-treating in Childress; the movie theater had a costume contest and movie; we carved pumpkins; we had the church trunk-or-treat; then there were class parties; and finally, we went door-to-door trick-or-treating. Phew! It was busy!!
Fall Festival
The PTO organized a fall festival for the first time in several years. The girls and I went to the school the day before and helped to assemble and organize some of the games. The next day we had Stake Temple Day in Lubbock, so we raced to the temple and then raced home in time for the games to start. It was a long hectic day but still fun. There were games set up in all the classrooms with prizes and candy for them all. High school kids volunteered to run the games and the kids played over and over. The boys were able to run around with their friends and had a really great time.
Radley playing games
Kyler playing a ring toss
Damon target shooting
Not my best, but we took a turn on the hayride.
Yeah, we need to work on our selfie game!!
Damon golfing. We need some practice
Bentley had fun playing the games too. She was pretty shy, but she shot some baskets like her brothers.
The Ritz
Every year the movie theater in town has a costume contest and movie for the kids at Halloween. They take can donations to get in and then they show a Halloween-ish movie after the winners are announced. Some of their cousins came from Childress so the Keys took up more than an entire row! Kyler won Best Costume!! He was excited because his friends were cheering for him. We didn't win best group, which we definitely should have, but that's ok!
Taking up the whole row!
So many kids.
Kyler up with the other winners
Pumpkin Carving
Kyler and Radley shared a pumpkin and did everything on their own!!
Bentley doing her own thing.
Bentley now trying to carve the pumpkin herself.
This girl and her independence/dependence drive me crazy, but I can't help but love her.
Damon cleaning out the guts!
Lighting up their bat, scary face, and cat pumpkins.
And I didn't realize until after I took the pictures that Bentley, as usual, wasn't wearing any clothes. Oh well, it's her in her natural state.
Blurry cold picture of them outside with their freshly carved pumpkins.
He was so proud!
The kids were excited about carving pumpkins. They did a lot of it on their own this year which was fun to see.
All of them in the kitchen is a crazy time!!
The kids also painted pumpkins for the library. They had to paint a pumpkin like their favorite character from a book. Damon painted a dog (again, it's what he did last year), Radley painted Spiderman, and Kyler painted Mew from a Pokemon book. Bentley also painted a pumpkin all purple, then red, then black, and a couple other colors. She called it her rainbow pumpkin.
Oma did it again!! Every year she pulls through and delivers amazing costumes, in a box to our door! The kids decided on the theme of Aladdin this year. They picked on their own without any fighting but total encouragement for one another's costumes, and I love that they still want to do a theme!! It's so fun for me! All of it turned out great. I can't believe she can make such amazing costumes without ever trying anything on the kids. Every time we looked at Radley we laughed because only that kid could own the Genie with such pride. Damon was bummed he had to wear a shirt to school for his costume. Kyler was the best Jafar ever. Bentley loved her costume so much and wears it at least once a day. And Mackenzie was such a good sport and never complained about her costume!
The whole crew!
Radley as the Genie
Damon as Aladdin
Kyler as Jafar
Bentley as Jasmine
Mackenzie as Abu
First time trick-or-treating
Radley and Asher found one another of course and Bentley got to walk with Taysom.
Taysom and Bentley
Checking out their candy.
These two are hilarious, Radley and Asher!! Never a dull moment around them.
Cutest monkey ever!!!
Love that tail!
I was shocked at how well she kept her hood on! It ever really seemed to bother her.
The kids never seem to mind getting pictures for Halloween! They looked amazing!
Mackenize was adorable crawling around in her monkey suit
