A Mother's Ramblings

Halloween 2012

This year I asked the girls what they wanted to be for Halloween. Last year I suggested Claire be Tinker Bell and she loved the idea. Quinn has not had a choice until this year either.

Claire right away said she wanted to be a doctor. I was relieved because that is pretty easy. I bought a pair of scrubs online and handkerchief (for her scrub hat) and we were set. We already had a toy doctor kit that had a stethoscope and other doctor tools... that I don't know the name of and am very glad Claire hasn't asked what they are called.

Dr. Claire Lieser

The girls have been playing buyer/seller together. When my sister and I were kids we called it Wal-Mart. One of the girls would go around the house and pick out things to buy and bring it to the other and that one would ring everything up and collect the money. Quinn gets confused sometimes as to which is the seller and the buyer. When I asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween she said she wanted to be a buyer. So I asked if that meant she wanted to be a shopper and she said no she wanted to be the one that went beep at Target. So....Quinn went as a Target Employee. Another easy costume. All I did was make the name tag and we borrowed the walkie talkie. I think the walkie talkie made the outfit even cuter.

Cutest Target worker ever!

We had lots of Halloween fun this year. We went to First Baptist Jenks Fall Festival on Sunday night. The girls played games and jumped in a bounce house and of course brought home candy. Then on Halloween morning we had a MOPS play date party and everyone dressed up. It was so fun and the girls got to play games and do crafts.

Mommy was a cowgirl.

Quinn made the bat and Claire made the owl at our MOPS party.

Then Halloween night we went to a nearby neighborhood and did a little trick-or-treating. It has been fun eating the girls' candy!

CANDY!!!!

Amber Lieser Photography- S. Family

I had the privilege of taking family pictures for a friend of mine. I am still scheduling for fall pictures if anyone is interested.

Here are a few of my favorites from that session.

S. Family

Lieser work day

Every year once fall begins we get together at Jared's parents house and we have a work day. This year the boys helped cut down trees and make firewood and the girls did yard work. I helped watch the kids and Aunt Flavia brought paint to paint pumpkins. The girls love their cousins and it makes work days fun watching them play together.

Favorite Dress

Quinn's dress from Easter this year quickly became her favorite dress. I think it has to do with the fact that it has flowers, has tulle, and twirls like none other. She calls it her church dress because at first I only let her wear it to church. She asked to wear it every day so finally I gave in and you know what...she wore that dress out this summer. She would wear it at least twice a week and one week she wore it five out of seven days!! So many pictures are taken of her in that dress. I was very happy to pack away summer clothes and bring out winter just so she wouldn't wear it anymore. So this was the last day she was able to wear it and I felt like we needed to document it since it was so important to her. She is precious in it.

P.S. She has now found a winter skirt that she asks to wear every day. Stinker!

Pumpkin Painting

As soon as we got home from our pumpkin patch play date (say that fast 3 times) the girls were ready to paint them. They were very disappointed to find out that they would have to wait until the next day. :( When they woke up the next morning it was the first thing on their minds so after breakfast we painted. It was a beautiful day so we spent the morning outside. After the pumpkins were dry Claire put hers on the front porch and Quinn put hers in her room where she could see it everyday. Makes sense to me.

I love that she is concentrating so much her tongue is sticking out.

She went with the stripes look.

Pumpkin Patch

Our MOPS table group got together for a play date at the pumpkin patch. The girls always love going. They were very concerned about picking the right pumpkin to paint. They also had fun feeding the animals as well and having a picnic lunch. We managed to visit 2 pumpkin patches this year but this one is our favorite.