Autumn Leaves & Other Fun

Today, I decided to take Gabriella, Isabella, Connor and our dog Mercury on a long walk through the fields to go and visit the library. On the way, we passed a lot of trees, where the leaves had darkened and fallen and carpeted the ground in a blanket of yellows, oranges, reds and browns.

I decided to take some portrait photos of the children in the leaves.















Mercury decided that he loved playing leaves, especially when the children kept throwing the leaves in the air or letting him play tug of war with the leaves. (In some of the photos of him jumping, he is out of focus. I didn't have my camera set for action photos as I wasn't expecting his exuberance at finding leaves to play in.)















The benefit of all of Mercury's running around was that he did, eventually, tire enough that I was able to take a couple of good portraits of him in the Autumn leaves.





Then the kids decided to climb a nearby tree. (Bella was not quite as brave about climbing the tree as Connor and Gabby were. And please keep in mind as you view the photos that I did not choose Isabella's outfit!)









Once we got to the library, I let the three of them choose a book each and I sat on the floor beside their child-sized table and read the stories aloud to them. After we visited the library, we went into the store that was next door to it to buy the kids some drinks. They found a Dolmio display and were quick to ask me to take their photos in it.



All in all, it was a fun day. Next time, I'll bring Cameron too. (He had been napping, so we left him home with his two teenage sisters during our walk.)





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Jack-o-lanterns

Gabby, Bella and Connor drew the faces they wanted carved into their pumpkins. Robert carved their jack-o-lanterns tonight. Connor called his "an alien!" Here are the results (from left to right: Isabella's, Gabriella's and Connor's):








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Isabella At The Park

Here are just a few pictures taken of Isabella today. The sun was a bit too bright and bothered her eyes a little. Isn't she pretty?

Connor & Isabella

Isabella turned 5 part-way through August and her little brother Connor turned 4 at the end of August. With just one year between them, they can sometimes be the best of friends and other times they can be each other's worst enemies. Today was one of the good days when they were happy to be brother and sister.

Connor's 4th Birthday Portraits

I usually take my children to the park near our house on their birthday, as long as the sun is shining, and take some birthday portraits of them. Connor's birthday was two days ago, but I didn't take him to the park to have his photos taken on his birthday, so today I made up for that and took his birthday portraits today.

Isabella came along and she and Connor took a lot of photos together. The problem is that I have a terrible time deciding which photos to share and end up sharing too many. So I have decided to break the sharing down into three separate posts. The first one, this one, is just photos of Connor. The one after this one will be photos of both Connor and Isabella together. The third one will be photos of just Isabella.

So here are some photos taken today of my handsome four year old son Connor.