Photo Challenge/Sneak Peek!

I'm entering this photo in my friend, Lily's, photo challenge.  The theme is "light" and I love how the lighting is in this picture.
It's ALSO a special sneak peek at the engagement session I did on Sunday with my neighbors, John and Sarah!  More to come!

Apple Orchard part 2

I love the gift shops in apple orchards.  So many cute, kitschy things!


I seriously love this pillow



Weazy wanted this little watering can... too cute!



While we were in the gift shop, one of the ladies stopped us and asked if we wanted a tractor ride. Apparently, there was a group that had scheduled one but didn't show up, so the tractor-driving guy had shown up for nothing. We were really the only people there, so they asked us, even though they normally only do tractor rides on the weekends. We agreed right away, and piled on to the trailer hitched up to the big green tractor that Lester drove around the orchard. We decided Lester was pretty much the coolest guy ever, and we're his #1 fans.



Kathryn and Lester! ;)



We even asked Lester if he'd pose for some pictures with us, and he agreed (though he was very confused as to why we'd want pictures with him...)

Yep, we love apple orchards.

What is your favorite thing to do at the apple orchard?

The Apple Orchard (part 1)

One of the best parts of my favorite season ever is visits to the APPLE ORCHARD!



Lina's "homeschooler" shoes.  She looked so cute in them.



Kitty: the love of Joe's life.



Kathryn and Mari

Lina looked like a little boy in her black sweatshirt.  But she was still ridiculously cute.



The expressions in this photo are perfect.



Weazy's "psycho farmer" face.  It looks like she wants to stab someone with her pitchfork



      



I hate this llama.... unless it's an alpaca.  Then, I hate this alpaca.





"Onward!"



I love how you can see the "Be Gentle to our Animals" sign, and Lina's making this vicious war cry face to the goats...







Kathryn's wicked-awesome jump off the hay bails!

Jumping fail

Here are several examples of why you don't usually see jumping photos with 10 kids... it just doesn't work. But the kids are cute, and the fails are funny, so I'm sharing the pictures anyway :)

The cutest baby ever

Being the eldest of my grandparents' 22 grandchildren, I'm constantly surrounded by babies.  Each one is declared "the cutest baby ever", and somehow, they all are!

But the one we get to focus on today is one of the newest babies, Maebelina!  I took about a zillion pictures of her on our trip up north a few weekends ago (same time as the jumping Gabby picture previously posted).
So here is the beautiful little "Mae-Mae", Cutest Baby Ever! ;)