Family Pics

Our friend Jill Brannon took family pictures of our family last week. She did a wonderful job and was able to get cuteness out of the choas.

Here is the link to her photography blog with examples of her work:

jillbrannonphotography.blogspot.com

Halloween

Our Halloween this year was a four day process :) This year was so fun with both girls into the dressing up and of course the free candy! The previous showed pics of our Halloween party with some little friends on Wednesday. Thursday night we attended a new event to us called Boo!seum. This year was the 15th year and we are glad we found out about it. Nine Little Rock museums host the event with people able to walk between them and play games, do crafts and of course get candy. It was fun to walk around downtown and see all of the other kids.

Making origami bats at the Heifer Village

Decorating Pumpkins

Trick or treating at the Candyland themed Clinton museum

Pop and his boy

Face painting was fun

Friday night was GSFest at our church. We had such a good time riding rides, playing games an seeing our friends. While Alyssa Kate rode quite a few rides this motorcycle ride was Caroline's only one. She was pretty calm before it started but as soon as it did....

she looked like this

Alyssa Kate loves to climb the rock walls on our play set at home and some of the parks we like to go to. There was a climbing wall at the festival and she said she wanted to do it. I was skeptical if she would actually go through with it but was proud of her even trying it. She showed no fear and mounted the over 30 foot wall and climbed like a monkey all the top and pushed a bottom that sounded an alarm to show she made it all the way to the top.

When she was finished on her first side the nice man that was running the wall asked if she wanted to climb the other side and of course she did. So, up the wall she went.

Best Buds


The was our first Halloween in our new house and the girls had a blast. I worked until 7 Sunday night and when I got home the girls and Wes were on the front porch handing out candy. The girls really liked giving candy to all the kids that came by. We set out after I got home to Trick or Treat for the first time. Alyssa Kate is a very shy girl with people she doesn't know and even if those she knows well but that girl went crazy Halloween night. She ran from house to house saying trick or treat and thank you to anyone who would give her candy. I guess if we want her not be shy we need everyone to give her candy when she sees them :)

Fall Fun

A friend, Amy, threw a Halloween party for the kids Wednesday. We had a blast! She used to be a teacher and put together a wonderful morning of fun activities and yummy treats. This year the girls are fairies and thanks to a few friends letting us borrow a few items they are adorable!

I thought Alyssa Kate's shadow looked like Tinkerbell

The wings mean they can fly :)

The girls loved playing the bowling game...cute idea bowling with pumpkins

The activity I ran was the candy corn spoon race...needless to say there was the one and only race because only the big kids wanted to try.

Alyssa Kate really liked trying not to lose her candy corn...the "Sumners" tongue out technique aids in the concentration!

The made a few crafts one of which was this cute picture of candy corn with torn paper.

When I snapped this picture I was taken back with how graceful and beautiful she looked

This morning another friend, Jill, took family pictures of us at a local park. She is extremely talented and I can not wait to see what she got. After the shoot the girls changed clothes and got to play on some of the cool equipment at the park. They had a blast!

I told Wes about Alyssa Kate's technique when climbing the wall and he said he need to take her to a climbing center and really see what she can do.

My big girl :)

We found out Wes passed his Bar exam on September 3rd and he was sworn in by a judge so that he could receive his Bar number and be able to officially do his job. Today, though was the official ceremony that every new lawyer must attend to be sworn in by the Supreme court of Arkansas. It was a very nice ceremony and the girls behaved extremely well!

He looks so handsome in the picture :)

Chief Justice Jim Hannah swearing them in

This was just the A-L group

Chief Justice Hannah and Wes

My two favorite men, it really warms my heart that Wes and my dad have become such good friends

Wes and his mom

Our family

This past Saturday was Kathryn's (Wes's sister) wedding and the girls were both flower girls. They did amazing well and both enjoyed themselves immensely. I thought this image of Caroline was just beautiful....

Alyssa Kate is becoming such a big beautiful girl!