The Girls...

My sister, Hailey, has an amazing group of friends. My mom and their mom's had been talking about trying to get them all together while I was in town to get some cute pictures of them downtown. They spent all morning getting so cute and making sure their hair was just perfect only to head downtown and realize just how HOT it was!! They were drenched in sweat in no time, but did such a great job not letting it show at all in the pictures. These girls are so sweet, and I hope they all remain the best of friends in the years to come.... Not to mention Ryder loves them all!!

 

 

 

Hunsader Farms: Halloween Festival

I hadn't really mentioned in the post before that our reason for our trip to Florida was for Miss Megan's wedding to Mr. Matt. Megan had asked for me to photograph their wedding, and I jumped on the opportuity. We had arrived into town Thursday night, I photographed the wedding Friday, went to the beach Saturday morning, had the Halloween party Saturday night, and then we headed off to Hunsader Farms Sunday morning. I left my camera home this day because in less then 72 hours in the Sunshine State I had already taken well over 1,500 pictures and was SOO exhausted. My elbow was actually hurting at that point from taking so many pictures. So our day at Hunsader Farms was captured on the iPhone. We had been talking for months about how we couldn't wait to go back because we had so much fun last year. I joked right before we went about how the pictures from last year reminded me of such great memories we had actually forgotten about how Erin got attached by a huge ant pile last year, there were HUGE spiders everywhere, and how it was SOOOO hot we really didn't enjoy ourselves that much. Although we all were cautious of the ants this year and the spiders were no where to be found, it was still HOT! We are got cranky and were over it sooner then we would have liked given our hour and a half drive to get to the farms, but now that I look at the pictures again I can't help but to think, "I hope we can go back again next year!"

 

 

Ryder and Sophia on the barrel train

 Landon and Dyson were big enough this year.. Last year they sat in their strollers eating baby food after the long drive while the big kids rode the train.

 We of course had to get our face painted again... Same shirt... and same painting as last year :)

 We then went to the trampolines... We waited a long time in a lot of heat for this quick jump!! But of course he loved it :)

 Landon and Ally chilled under the tree to try to get some shade.

 Onto the horse rides

 And then the highlight of the day....

The Frog Show!!!

Ryder raised his hand to be selected in the frog jumping contest... and was chosen for the 2nd frog.

 Ryder and our friend Addison had to see how far their frog Knee Deep would jump.

 Ryder getting Knee Deep out of the bucket

 If you look to the left of the white bucket on the white mat you can see how big Knee Deep was!!

 Their certificate of participation while we waited to see if we won!!

 In the end they ALL won.. gotta love fair games.. Ryder and Addison with their frog trophies!

Hunsader Farms... You are always HOT HOT HOT, but I look forward to seeing you again next year :)

Grammy's Halloween Party

Now that my sister's are a little too old to really enjoy trick-or-treating my mom now does a Halloween party for my sisters, their friends, and of course a few of her favorite little people. We planned the party with our trip down to Florida so we could be there to participate, and it didn't disappoint!! I have a ton of pictures to show our fun time....

 

 

Ryder's least favorite part.. Pictures... This was the best I got :(

He LOVES playing Super Mario and Mario Kart on his Nintendo DS and had decided months ago that was what he wanted to be.

 Miss Sophia wearing Mario's mustache since he wasn't having it!

 Auntie Hailey as Pebbles from The Flinstone's

 I may not have gotten Mario to smile above, but I will love this picture of him and his Auntie Ally forever... Auntie Ally dressed up as Luigi for him! Auntie of the year award right there!!

 The Reeves Girls

 Best Friends

 My little Nemo. Ryder wore this his 3rd Halloween, and we watch it all the time in the car so he got pretty excited when he saw it. He wasn't very excited to wear it though. The party started around his bedtime so he stuck around for group pictures and then was down for the count :)

Some of the Fort Myers Christian Middle School girls...

I miss this age so much!!

Party Food.. Yum!

 A photo of the whole group

 Miss Jamie and MaKenna...

My mom now watches Miss MaKenna during the week so we got to spend lots of time with her while we were there!!

 The trio back together again

Landon, Dyson, and Makenna

17 months 

 One of the few pictures he wasn't a complete blur in... This guys is ON-THE-GO!

 Wilma and Pebbles...

AKA Maddie and Hailey

 Time for the donut eating contest....

 He took it very seriously... even though i'm pretty sure he was the last one standing there

 Time for the Mummy Wrap

 My little man and his best friend :) It was as if not a single day had passed!

 Dyson really likes these cymbols

 Bobbing for Apples...

 In this picture Ryder is about to spit out his first big chunk. He couldn't get the pick it up concept and in the end his apple just had a bunch of chunks missing out of it.

 The next game they had to get gummy worms out of their whipped cream pie tray...

 

Everyone had so much fun!! Hope we can make it again next year...

Thanks Grammy!!