Family Pictures

My sister-in-law Miriam was so willing to take our family picture this year, I had had these outfits since the beginning of summer trying to get schedules to work out and things fell through but I am so glad now because the color of the grain was PERFECT for what I was going for AND it is our first picture on our farm! The weather was really cold to be wearing shorts and short sleeves so I'm grateful the children put up with my summer outfits turned fall family picture! These are the best ones out of the three different poses-our expressions in the last one are hilarious I can't remember what we were laughing at but it made for a memory anyway. I had these taken on Oct 10th and I am finally getting around to sorting through them so that tells you how busy I have been with our kitchen plans (I have been living in a paper world for a couple weeks designing). Thank you Miriam for taking these :)

Halloween

This year, the Penfold family presents Brittany as Thing 1, Alex as Thing 2 and Parker as The Cat in the Hat! What a fun trio we had this year. Abigail came down the runway as a princess and Savanna is the cow. We trick-or-treated in the rain but it was not below freezing so all was well and the children had a great time. Earlier in the day we went to a local store to have pictures taken and their costumes judged, then to the fire station for a tour, glow necklaces, blinking lights and cider. It was a fun family night!

P.S. I posted this yesterday but today we went in to the store where they had their costumes judged and they won 2nd place! It was perfect because 1st place won a bike, 2nd place won $30 and 3rd place won $20 so we were actually hoping for 2nd because they divided it up and each got $10. We were all thrilled! :)