Imholz, Party of 16!

Recently I had the opportunity to photograph the Imholz Family.  If I said I wasn't nervous to do this, I would be lying.  This is to date the biggest family shoot I have ever done.  There were 16 people!  That's a whole lot of eyes needing to be open, smiles needing to be captured and quite frankly kids needing to be still!  To top it off the day we met there was like a 75% chance of rain so we were IN A HURRY!  These kids (and adults) could not have been more cooperative though, I could not believe my eyes.  They all stood where we told them, smiled on cue and didn't even complain.  I don't know what the parents were bribing them with but it was totally worth it!  Add on the fact that this is one gorgeous family and we had the recipe for photography success.  Thank you Imholz Family for going easy on me, hope you enjoy your sneak peak... 

Now it was time for a little fun!

Carving Party

We couldn't let the Halloween Season pass us by without doing a little Pumpkin Carving.  Usually we have a Pumpkin Carving Party with some of my friends from work but it turns out this year we were all too busy with…life.  So this Pumpkin Carving Party was just a party of 4 this year.  The boys were amazed by Chad's carving skills and even helped get the guts out this year.  Their faces are pretty priceless in some of these, I do believe we are going to have to work on their manliness!

Everytime Chad would have a piece ready to fall out of the pumpkin Bennett would grab it and say "I Won".  He sure is cute for being such a booger sometimes.

There's that rotting pumpkin I referenced in my last post...

Bennett kept it simple for dear old Dad, he picked a tiny little pumpkin and asked for a face. He also waited patiently for his finished product…

Nolan picked that gigantic (rotting) pumpkin and asked for a Dragon!  Chad definitely delivered, but I can assure you it did not look easy. 

Thing One

Thing One…Turned Two, so a bash is what we had to do!  And quite the bash it was!  Connor's Mom makes me look sane when it comes to party throwing, she's crazy.  She also helps my debates with my husband over storing party junk but I think we've come to the conclusion now that I should just store my party junk at her house because unlike my husband her husband is not bothered by the millions of mason jars, glass bowls and tissue covered items.  You see Chad thinks I'm going to end up having a hoarding problem like my Mom (just to clarify Mom, CHAD said you have a problem…not me.  He's not so perfect after all eh?).  Personally I don't see a problem with keeping a few party items at my disposal seeing as though we have plenty of storage space...oh and because it's MY HOUSE TOO.  Anyway I'll get back to the real topic here, Connor's party.  Connor's birthday is in October so he is destined to have Halloween themed parties for the rest of his life.  This is good and bad in my mind, good because it's a guaranteed fun theme bad because that means I will always have to have costumes ready early!  And by "I", I really mean whoever I have roped into making my costumes for that given year!  We made it though, by the hair on our chinny chin chin.  And the party was a blast!  Happy Birthday Connor, thanks for having us at your party!

This year Nolan wanted to be Wolverine.  Here is about the only picture I got of him in his costume on this particular day.  He was hot and he broke one of his claws within the first five minutes of being there so he turned into kid in a skeleton t-shirt instead!

On the other hand Bennett, who I thought would want NOTHING to do with dressing up, LOVED his costume and wouldn't take it off.  He was stomping around that pumpkin patch like he owned the place and if the head of his costume fell down he would get mad and immediately pull it back up.  Him and Violet were "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf", and they could not have been any cuter.  

 

Here is Connor (Thing One) blowing out his candle.  He could not have been any cuter, this kid soaks up the attention like a sponge and performs like the best of them!  Awesome day, Awesome Party!

The Patch

We waited a long time to go to the Pumpkin Patch this year…too long.  The day we finally picked to go I do believe is the same day that every other family in the surrounding 12 counties decided to go as well.  Bottom line…it was crowded.  Super duper annoyingly crowded.  It was also super sunny.  Regardless of how whiney this post may sound I will say the boys loved it.  Bennett was bee-bopping around the whole place but mostly obsessed with the pumpkins. "Big Pump-kin Mama", "Wow, Pump-kin".  He probably would have been just as happy at the grocery store display looking at all the pumpkins now that I think about it.  Maybe next year.  Here was our little adventure…

Here's that stud muffin husband of mine.  Doesn't he look tough, all macho like carrying around our $20 pumpkin that I realize we could have bought at Aldi for $3.99.  What fun would that be though?  Plus, this $20 pumpkin rotted on our front porch the following week.  Beat that Aldi.