Sweet little man - Jackson Jett

Every once in a while I get to take photos for a friend and its always such a treat for me. Our friends and former neighbors Jimmy and Staci welcomed home Jackson Jett a few months ago and I spent a morning with them snapping some snots. 

You should see all the sweet details in his nursery. They have a great print on the wall that is the outline of TX made with the chord from ear buds (perfect because Dad is a musician).

 Trying to figure out where J is going to be happiest...

Who wouldn't love being on this cozy couch with momma?

 More fun details.

 Alright, since he was no where close to sleepy (best for solo baby shots) it was time to bring the whole fam together.

 Just with Daddy

 And now Mommy

 Sleepy yet little guy? Let's try for some solo shots...

 Back to plan A - just snuggling w/ Mommy

 Its fun to look back on these since he's getting bigger and cuter every week. A favorite family for sure!

Happy Halloween from Emmit, Ninja and Cheerleader. Plus has anyone seen Waldo? Or his wife?

It was time to catch up again - they're out of order - but there's some kiddo/fall updates as well as a Halloween. Happy November to you and yours!

It was nice to have the Bridges party the night before Halloween so on Friday we just got to focus on the kiddos and trick-or-treating. We're getting ready...Ninja - check! Emmit from the Lego Movie - check! Cheerleader Maggie??? Oh, she's, ahem, Maggie are you pooping???

The whole gang. Kyle is Waldo from Where's Waldo (hopefully you can tell) - and I am technically his girlfriend Wenda. But since nobody really knows who that is, I'll just say I'm Waldo's wife. (I was so on top of it and ordered most of what we needed for costumes back in the summer...but then didn't try anything on until the day before and my Waldo shirt was obscenely too small (and Kyle's way too big - see his rolled up sleeves?) so I made a quick tutu and put the requisite denim on top.

With Bee!

With Geanine as Witch Mary from Hocus Pocus.

So lucky to have Bee to hand out candy at our place while we hit the streets!

Anybody seen Waldo?

Waldo and Dr. Murray.

A selfie w/ my big camera - couldn't believe it worked! (My mom says we're starting to look alike - like those old couples who eat dinner together at 4pm!)

After some trick-or-treating we ended up at a neighbor's party for a minute - they had bobbing for apples and Rebecca was (no surprise, really) very good at it!

And what successful Halloween doesn't end with a year-old dinosaur pinata??? (Thanks Waldo.)

Bridges brought this pinata last year for the party and we ran out of time so they took it (which broke Rebecca's heart) - when it came back this year and we ran out of time again they graciously left it so our kids could do it. Rebecca was very intense.

By this point Maggie was in nothing but undies (so no photo) - she and Owen could both learn a thing or two from Rebecca when it comes to pinata-ing!

Nana dropped by to say hello and see everyone in costume - she even took a couple of swings! Kyle had a little too much fun moving it around on her!

Then Owen got a chance to keep it from Kyle!

We may have to be start a neighborhood pinata tradition next year!

To let our candy-coma fully settle in, we got into jammies and snuggled on the couch to watch Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin to cap the (late) night off.

Sisters

We used to only talk about two "groupings" of kids in our family - "the big kids" (O & R) and "Maggie" - but now there is this third group - "the girls." 

Sometimes they are so sweet to each other and I can look ahead to when they're all grown up and are best friends in a way only sisters could be...

Love.

And then there is this...

Which leads to this. (Time out for each of them a few minutes apart.)

Okay, back to playing whatever little game sent you both to time-out.

Post-preschool-Halloween fun. And by fun I mean no-candy treat-bags filled with things like tiny boxes of raisins, plastic junk toys I'm going to throw away as soon as I can get my hands on the bags, and a new toothbrush. Wow, the funness is overwhelming. ;)

But the face-painting is pretty epic. Rebecca is some sort of cat.

Maggie has giant hearts on her cheeks - so appropriate!

Smiles.

Starting to crack each other up.

Up close and personal.

They even have a couple of "games" that are just theirs. 

• UP AND DOWN. In the car, Maggie says up and down over and over again and they put their arms up and down to the rhythm. There is no end. And the giggling is big time. Maggie clearly came up with this time, but Rebecca gladly participates.
• BABY STATION. I think this was Rebecca's brain child. They take a bunch of pillows off the couch and make a relatively small "bed" for "the baby" (Maggie) and Rebecca says "motherly" things to her. 
• LET'S DO LOVE - LUUUUUUUUUUV. Not sure who came up with this one. They say all of that: Hey Maggie, let's do love. Luuuuuuuuuuuuuv! Then they put their faces really close together, and say luuuuuuuuuuv over and over again and laugh hysterically.