Photo Shoot

We have been slacking in taking pictures for the past two weeks, but I really wanted to get rid of the Halloween post on our blog, so here is the only thing I could think of to talk about. We had a friend of ours do a photo shoot with the girls a couple of weeks ago. We wanted to try doing it outside and figured that the Temple grounds would give us the best backgrounds (we had the rainiest October in Missouri history so the ground was pretty soggy). Here are some of the best shots we got.

I don't know the first thing about taking professional looking pictures, so it was fun to let someone else practice on our girls and let us have the pictures. We did try taking some pictures with another background, but Ashley didn't want to cooperate by then so they didn't really come out.

We are doing well and looking forward to the upcoming visit from Grandma and Grandpa Miner and Becky and Jake and family.

Trick or Treat

Alyssa was really excited for Halloween this year. On Saturday she was asking us all day long if it was time to go trick or treating yet. We had guessed that the time to go out was around 6pm so we had them all dressed and ready to go a little before that so we could take some pictures. Here they are all ready to go.

Here they are again, still waiting to go. (Ashley was really trying to pick up that pumpkin)

Still waiting...

Obviously we guessed wrong on the time because they are still waiting. Can you tell that it is gradually getting darker in the pictures. We didn't want to knock on doors before people were ready. We still had to wait at the first two houses for them to get their candy ready. The first lady opened her door and left it open while she went to get her candy. Ashley tried to go inside their house and was upset when I stopped her. She didn't quite get what we were doing. She was screaming by the time the lady got back, but quickly calmed down when she gave her candy.

Ashley loved trick or treating. Her little legs walked a lot and she insisted on carrying her candy bucket the whole time, even when it was too heavy for her.

Alyssa loved trick or treating also and was even excited to help hand candy out after we got back to the house. Her favorite treat that was given to her was fortune cookies. She ate those first.

We just went out in our neighbor hood within a couple of blocks of our house and the girls got plenty of candy. I took the girls and Danny stayed to hand out candy. I was exhausted by the time we got back. Walking it wouldn't have been bad, it was the constant yank on my arm from Ashley tripping or carrying Ashley and both loaded candy buckets for the last 20 minutes that wore me out. I think I will let Danny take them next year.