Bow-ties.

I am so excited to show these pictures off! My friend Katrina always makes adorable bow-ties for her boys, and she even gave a tutorial on her blog of how to make them, but since I am sewing machine-less I pled with her to make a few for me-well, for my boys- and she, being the wonderful lady that she is, did indeed make me some. In fact, a few turned into quite a lot, and then that turned into dresses for the girls also! See how awesome she is?

So, as part of payment, I had to take really fabulous pictures of my kids in her awesome goods. Just kidding, I would have done that anyway. Anyhoo, it seemed so difficult to find a day to do it, not that we had pressing engagements all the time or anything, just the weather was so difficult –rainy a lot, and even if the sun did come out I couldn’t plan on it because it was so variable all day. Anyway, blah blah blah, I finally did pull everything together and had the most harrowing picture-taking experience ever!! Well, maybe not ever, but it was tiring (as trying to get pictures generally always is).

First of all, I had been keeping my eyes out for a good field for awhile, and had a place or two in mind, but right as I was going to get the kids out the door, Brett came home from work and said he had to go to a meeting and visit some people and had to take the van (I thought he was going straight to the meeting from work). Grrr. That left us to take pictures in places within walking distance. Okay. Luckily I live by a farm, right? So we walked to a field I had seen pretty grass in a day or so before on a walk with Ethne and Talmage. So we all walked there, and it was freshly mowed. Ruff. So then we walked back to our house, and we went into a little tiny field/lot place right by our apartment (no fence or anything by the way), and that was quite good actually, only then a lady came out and got after me for being in her field without asking. Actually she was not too mean about it, but definitely the message was –don’t come back. Luckily I was pretty much done by that point. Then a few other things that one must expect- Orrin fell off his chair on his face, Talmage peed his pants, Jethro moaned and whined. Sheesh—what a girl’s got to go through to get some pictures! But, after all was said and done, I think I got some keepers, don’t you agree?

(I think Talmage is so so soooo adorable in the picture above, but I also think he looks like a miniature man, like, Jethro and Hazel are normal-sized, but he’s a hobbit or something. Ha ha.)

Then for some individual shots.

I am absolutely in LOVE with this kid and his charmingly adorable grin, and his suspenders and his off-center bow-tie!!!

Love this one! :

I can’t decide which of the following two I like better. So hard to decide!

Jethro was the hardest of everyone to take pictures of. What a male. :)

And Orrin didn’t get any pictures taken of just him, because the lady came and chewed me out before I could, but there was a good one of him in one of the group shots, so here he is. Awwww.

And finally, there was one little happy accident of the night. Since we didn’t drive the van and we were walking to the farmer’s field, we chanced to walk by some guys working on this cool looking car. And I thought to myself, Man- wouldn’t Brett think it was cool to have a picture of the kids in front of this car? So I had Jethro ask them if we could take a picture in front of it and they said sure. Pretty neat, eh?

Here are a couple other views in case you want to see what the car looks like better. The guys said it was a 1939 (but I don’t know what make or model) and had been in his family for 4 generations. They were really cute about it and two of them grabbed their phones and took pictures too. :) And Brett was impressed with these pictures. :)

The end. (p.s. I can’t wait to post about what Brett and I did on Saturday—it was soooo awesome!)