Fall Family Pics

The weekend before Halloween the weather was nice and we went out with my siblings to a nice leafy spot near the canyon and took pics of each other's families. What a great way to spend the day, hanging out with family and everyone got family pictures out of it. We have been meaning to get fall pictures done every year, but it always seems to snow before we can find the time. Michael's family wasn't able to make it the first time out, but we were still able to sneak in some time right before Thanksgiving dinner.

I went to my grandparent's property and took a bunch of pics around the old barns with Michael and his wife Kyrsten, and sons Klayton and Brody. Klayton Family feet!

Brody had a mad case of the wiggles so it was pretty tricky getting him to look at the camera AND smile. Kimmy and Bryan Kim, (step-kids) Jackson, Clixie, and hubby Bryan

David, wife Heather and my adorable niece Munchy (Haileigh)

What a cutie-pie!

Reed and Raquel. At the time she was in the last weeks of her pregnancy and supposed to be on bed rest. So we didn't let her stand up and walk around too much. But we were still able to get a few good pics.

Our little guy Kael

Koen just goofin' around

I love this pic because of the look on Koen's face always makes me laugh.

Our little monkeys!

Raising twins has been such an incredible experience and we wouldn't trade it for anything!

I was in the middle of taking David and Heather's pictures and I look over at my sweetie and see this beautiful sight! AHHHH! I love this man :)

So Reed thought we needed some sort of "special effects" in our pics..... 'cause it looks natural to be caught in a crazy leaf storm.... I think he was just looking for a reason to throw leaves at us.

Just messing around while waiting for the next pictures to be set up.

Baby Jace!

November 7, 2009 I rushed to the hospital after work and 30 minutes after I entered the delivery room, I got to finally meet my newest nephew!

We'd like to welcome little Jace Allen White! 7 lbs. 10 oz. 20 1/2 inches.
The little guy had to spend his first few days here in NICU because he had a little fever when he was born. But he did great and was outta there in no time!

Helping move bags from the delivery room to the next room. Finally made it home at 3 a.m.

Reed's baby picture taken in the hospital.....just for comparison. I think it's fair to say he's the father!! :) Snuggling with Jace and getting him ready to take a few pics for a baby announcement. We set up some lights and threw down a black backdrop in the family room.

We found all the baskets in the house and tried him out in all of them. We had a few favorites.

This is the main pic on the announcement.

First family pics!

Sorry, this pic would not turn the right way....pretend he's lying down ....lol

He looks like a little froggy in this one.

Another pic that will not turn right. I'll figure this out eventually.

Happy Halloween!!

We had a VERY busy day. First we set off in search of the perfect pumpkins to carve and put on the porch. Every one of the kids ended up pulling their own wagon full of pumpkins. Aidan is off to a good start. The twins ride at first but when they see how much fun it was to pull and load....they were off on a mission.

Kael enjoyed pulling Koen around
Dallin found his pumpkin at the beginning and held onto it regardless of how much his other siblings tried to trade or trick him out of it.
Aidan found his!

Kael starting his own collection of pumpkins

After Dallin found his pumpkin he just kicked back and watch his brothers and sister scavenge for theirs

Still searching

Dallin still keeping guard

Kael continues to gather

Our pretty little girl

Siblings/Best Buds...They're inseparable when together.

Kael exploring the haystacks

Koen looking and peacefully meandering

We finally got them to sit for a few seconds to take a pic.

And we jumped in too!

Back to the house for carving festivities. The kids drew the face on the pumpkin that they wanted and we did our best. We have Aidan's, Kael (he wanted moon eyes and a star nose) Koen, Hannah and Dallin's (the biggest one and he made sure we didn't forget).

While we were out searching for pumpkins apparently a wasps nest had broken through and got in the house. We were unaware of a nest since we moved in a week prior. There were over 40 wasps of which Uncle Reed had fun vacuuming up with the hose and watching them buzz around inside the vacuum. So while we were busy carving and doing other festive activities the men were outside for 2 hours entertaining themselves in wasp killing adventures. The method to their madness was to snap a wet towel at them and smack them out of the air while Reed sprays them with something that killed them. To sum it up, fun was had by all and laughter could be heard outside as well as in.

Cookie decorating time! And all the kids made sure that no candy went to waste.

Trick-or-treat time! I wish I would have gotten better pics of costumes but I forgot my camera when we left for the night. We went to our old neighborhood in Provo since we knew our neighbors very well and missed them. So the pics of costumes are after a long night of treating around neighborhoods. I was a black cat of which my long, fancy, fake eyelashes fell off halfway through the night. I should have listened to the 6 yr old who apparently is a pro at putting on fake eyelashes and was giving me advise on how to do it.

Good Witch Hannah......

Bad Witch Hannah.........the alter-ego-witch.........very spooky.

Dallin, or should I say Optimus Dal!

The twins chose to be Incredibles of which they were excited and even wore their costumes to bed for a couple nights. But when it came time to actually wear them for their intended purposes, they would have no part in it. I even brought back up costumes of Spiderman, a Skeleton and a Pirate and they refused. So they trick-or-treated in their little skeleton t-shirts they wore earlier while pumpkin hunting so at least it was festive.