Picture Post: The Kids Fall Themed Half Year Photos!

My kid, Quinn, started school this fall and I'm still getting used to our new schedule. We now wake up a little earlier and get dressed every day. We take a nice walk to the bus stop, where Quinn gets picked up. Then Mitchell and I fart around for a couple hours, go get Quinn, run errands together or have lunch at home. Either way, we get back just in time for it to be the worst time to take nice pictures of the kids. It's just too sunny. And we've been busy most weekends so the kids photo shoots have not been a priority. 

Luckily, I found some time this weekend to take some pictures before all those beautiful leaves fall. Also, nearly every picture ended up coming out pretty well, so I have hardly any bloopers.... Just kidding. I still have a fairly decent amount of bloopers! Here goes:

Quinn's adult top tooth still hasn't come in even though she lost the baby one months ago.

As usual, I decided to take the pictures somewhere in our yard. The first few that I took, like this one, was technically in our yard, but the background is the neighbors yard. 

The neighbors yard will be covered in Christmas lights come December.

That orange colored tree was a vibrant red just a couple days ago. It bums me out that I missed taking the pictures when it was red because the background would've had a lot more fall colors.

I bought that overall dress last week for $3.00 brand new!

I moved the photo shoot to the other side of our yard where there were more leaves on the ground. And lemme tell ya; moving that big pumpkin around was a pain in the butt!

She did not want to sit on the ground in her pretty dress. It took a lot of convincing on my part!

Once I got her to sit on the ground, placed her hands on her knees and moved the pumpkins to better frame her, I knew the pictures I took would be gold. I just absolutely adore this one. I almost regret paying for boring pictures from the school when I have this picture for free.

I don't know if this one is my favorite or the next one...

It took a lot of coaxing to get Mitchell to sit on the ground. He really wanted to get up and run around. So, the when he finally did sit down, I snapped a couple of quick shots and this gem just happened to be first. His eyes are a little squinty, but other than that, I love how relaxed this picture is.

He looks pretty huge in this picture, even though he's a regular sized kid.

Again with the squinty eyes! I fear he may take after me and lose his eyeballs when he smiles. That's why I tend to not smile too brightly for photos. Anyway, he looks like a tween in this picture. He looks older than his 3.5 yrs. I don't know if it's the gelled hair or the pose or what. Gimme my baby boy back!!

I think the three of us were ready to be done taking pictures but just in case the earlier shots came out poorly, I wanted to take just a couple more of them together. So, I had them stand next to each other and smile. After a couple shots, I realized that Quinn was secretly tickling Mitchell on his neck to get him to smile for me. I just clicked away and ended up with some cute shots:

This last one was achieved by telling Quinn I'd have to start tickling her! It worked. Best smiles of the day! 

I love having new holiday and seasonal photos of the kids to display. I'm getting to the point in my kid photography that I change out the photos of them with the seasons. Pretty soon, I won't need to decorate my house otherwise, just with pictures I've taken. 

And a good bye kiss to end the post!