happy thanksgiving :)

Did you have a good Thanksgiving?  What did you do?  What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions?  All you lurkers out there...come out of the shadows and leave me a comment!  :)  I would especially enjoy "meeting" those of you who check in from different countries!

Our Thanksgiving was small and a little, uh, boring.  :)  But still good.  I went to see a movie with my brother last night. We saw Hugo...it was...kinda long, a little bit boring, and a little bit weird...but fun to get out and do something.

For the last week and a half I got to fill in for Catrina and play mommy for four kids.  And I know I had more fun than she did.  :-p  Her husband's father in law is in the hospital...and the day they got there, his grandfather was admitted to the same hospital as well!  It was an intense week and a half for them but I was happy to be here so they could go with no little kids and just focus on being there.

I have two photo shoots...well, actually three but I'm saving one for later...to catch up on.  In the meantime, here are two sneak peaks for you.  :)

Oh yes, this is my LMG to a T!  Making history.  Lol  :)

This was a fun session!  And this is just a funny picture from it.  There are cute ones too, I promise.  ;)  I threatened to tell some stories on these kiddos' mom and this is the look I got!  Ha!  :}

Ok, I'm off to do a little shopping...more pics later!

lauren's fall pics

Having a little sister comes in very handy on a day when all you feel like doing is wandering around one of the best photo spots in town and taking pictures.  She is always willing to be my model and let me try out whatever ideas I have...and it's easy to get great shots with such a beautiful model! ;)

ava and eli

Second of the three photo shoots done!  One to go!  :)

This next one is my favorite.  Yum.  :)

the landry family

Finally done editing the first of the three photo shoots in the last post!  On to the next one!  :)  Jodi, I'll get your cd to you soon.  :)

Here are some of my favorites...

   

sneak peeks :)

Just a few sneak peeks from my latest photo shoots.

Anyone want fall or Christmas pics done in the next couple weeks while the trees are so beautiful for a very reasonable price?  Let me know!  :)

boo at the zoo 2011

I have taken my kids to Boo at the Zoo pretty much every year that I was their nanny and I claimed it as my thing to do with them even now.  I got to pick them up from school, which I LOVE to do.  Mr. Happy squeals and ruuuns straight for me and jumps in my arms and bear hugs me and smothers me in kisses every time!  :)  Then we headed straight for their house so we could get costumes and makeup on and be ready to meet our friends.

This year I had...

Little Miss Giggles, the pirate.

Mr. Happy, Count Dracula.

(He was this when he was two...which I might have to find a picture of here in a minute...)

And Little Miss Sunshine, Cleopatra.

There always has to be one silly picture when LMG is around...!  :)

So. Beautiful!

Then we were off to the zoo!  Where we met...

Jonathan the firefighter!

And my baby Madison...isn't she just one of the cutest things EVER???  :)

This is a great place for people watching while we waited for Leah and family to get there!  My kids asked me if Miss Shannon or Miss Leah were going to dress up and we decided that if anyone were to dress up, it would be Leah. 

We were right!!  :)  So fun!  Aiden told mommy he wanted to be a green bean...so she made him a green bean costume! lol.  And Anniebug was an Anniebug!

After walking through the candy stations, the carousel is our favorite stop.  It goes backwards for Boo at the Zoo!

I helped push Madison's stroller and this is how Mr. Happy walked pretty much the entire time I did.  :) We watched a dance performance and I held him so he could see over all the tall people and he watched the entire dance cheek to cheek with me.  He loves and misses his Kiki.  :)

Oh my goodness this is LMG to a T!  :)  Love her happy smile!  This was our annual after-boo-at-the-zoo stop at McD's.

We went home and everyone crawled into bed and was asleep in minutes...LMG didn't even make it through the bedtime story or goodnight prayers.  :)  Mr. Happy was even too sleepy for his favorite lullaby but still wanted me to snuggle next to him while he fell asleep.  

I think I'll be back with them in a couple weeks for an entire weekend and I can't wait!