My Once Upon a Time...

I scheduled and paid for this photo shoot way before we decided to take family Halloween pictures, otherwise I wouldn't have scheduled this one.  Same costume, different photographer. Such a cute police officer!

This was the first year that Fox really had an opinion about what he wanted to be for Halloween. Although, said opinion changed quite frequently from the time we first asked him in August to when we actually bought his costume.  He went from wanting to be a storm trooper to an astronaut, from superhero to witch... until we had to break the news that his broom won't actually fly, so that was a deal breaker for him (I was so excited that we could be the Sanderson sisters...ha!). Eventually, he told us he wanted to be a police officer and when he didn't change his mind for several weeks, we pulled the trigger and went costume shopping. He chose "bad guy costumes" for Katie and I and while I didn't care what we were going to be, I was happy that once again, we managed to have a family costume theme.  I asked my favorite photographer if she had 15 minutes to snap some quick pictures of us and she came up with this elaborate story line that we had to act out whe...

My heart is heavy today, after staring at negative pregnancy tests for the  last three days. Just waiting for that second line to show up, but it  never does. I haven't taken a home pregnancy test in over four years, but  when I did, all the feelings came rushing back from a time in my life that  almost broke me. I've seen so many of these tests and it always happens  the same way. I stare at them, I hold them up to the light, trying to make  out a second line that isn't there, throw them in the trash, just to take  them out of the trash again an hour later to check again. My blood draw isn't until tomorrow, but I have no doubt in my mind that  the results will be the same. During our last cycle in February, I didn't test at home, but hearing the  bad news from that rude nurse was so hard on me, that I decided I had to  get the answers on my own terms and in my own time. Now all I want to do  is move on, but they wo...

Another beautiful (and hot) day at the Pumpkin Patch, this time with one of our best friends.  These boys met when they were only a few weeks old and it has been so fun watching them play together over the last three years. He just loves to play and always asks me to schedule play dates and Jake is definitely one of his favorites! We went last year together as well, look how much these two have grown since! They were trying to splash Kristy with water and chased after her. They both laughed so hard! This pumpkin patch always has the biggest pumpkins I have ever seen. He was cracking up, because Kristy kept calling him "Farmer Fox" and apparently it was the funniest thing he has ever heard! \ Dirty kids, scraped knees and so many smiles! Last year they didn't know what to do in the giant hay maze, but this year was a blast. It was awesome, because we could watch them from the sidelines, while they wer...