Halloween!

Yea! I'm finally to the point where I can post a few pictures. Thank heavens I'm persistent or I would've given up when Mclaren started screaming and crawling away and there would be none of the Holdsworth children for 2007.

We ended up going to the church for the trunk or treat. It was fun and it was packed! Had we shown up a few minutes later I probably would've begged Matt to go and get Jack in the Box up the street rather than wait in the chili line! The kids had fun and there were some crazy crazy costumes as well.

(still working on Laina in front of the camera :)

(Chaiya what were you guys again????)

(Rag doll!!! So cute!)
(Wow...its a toss up between the cow and....Carmen down below! and don't forget her banana!)

Boys...Boys...Boys!

I've never had so many boys show up to a shoot! We started out with one and then after he left 2 others showed up! I told her I was going to post all the ones with the boys in it...she didn't seem the least bit disturbed!!! We had a great time and the "boys" weren't too distracting! She did show up in my favorite color (yellow!) so we were like two little rays of sunshine bobbing around in the fall colors.

Pumpkin Guts!

Okay I didn't get pictures of McLaren actually chucking the pumpkin at everyone because I had to set the camera down to stop him and take him to bed, BUT I did get a nice hand off of pumpkin guts to his brother, that was right before he figured out he could chuck it at his brother...who ended up with it in his hair. Matt came home and made us all design a face on paper and then we had to vote on which face got made...it ended up looking like our fake one already on the porch...oh well...we tried.

Crystal Blue

Color of her eyes...man were those babies poppin! As was the fuschia sweater (lovin' the color...can't get enough of it). We had a great time and a volleyball even made its way into some of the shots...since she's headed to New Mexico next year to play (woo hoo!)- we thought it was only appropriate. And speaking of volleyball -- a fellow volleyball friend (I think I've just about shot most of the PHS volleyball team :) mentioned today that she was dying to see these pictures....I'm wondering now if she figured out that hers were next in line so the quicker I got done with these...then I could move on to hers????? (kidding)
Obviously we survived Disneyland...and I haven't had a chance to go through the pictures yet...but we had a BLAST! 1 word... RideMax....

Mom & Dad, 2 Kids, 1 horse, 1 "porsche" and 3 dogs

Lovin' it....the location (even under construction) was incredible...I can't wait to get back once its finished! (hint hint...nudge nudge...) I wanted to show the "village people"/under construction shot, but had to save it for a christmas card...I'm not sure there was one more animal we could've fit in :) and p.s. a "porsche" is a pony/horse....(learn something new everyday)

Disneyland here we come!!!! We're headed off for a much needed family vacation to Disneyland. It worked out that its my dad's 60th birthday on Halloween so he "volunteered" to take us for his birthday present! (and of course there will be some lovely home-made birthday cards as well :) I haven't been in about 14 years...I think I'm the most excited out of everyone.

Mom's favorite outfit

So halfway through this session we did an outfit change and she tells me that the second outfit is her "moms favorite"....Man! its a good thing she wore the other one first or we would have done the whole shoot in this second one (kidding of course, but hey - if the mom ain't happy....well you know :) ANYWAY she's beautiful and I've never seen such perfect white teeth (I'll have to ask if there was an orthodontist involved in that :) So I'm posting one for her mom and one for me!

Wind? What wind?

So the weather here took a nose dive of about 10 degrees and the wind got a little crazy on us, but did that stop a wonderful family session? NO. Did a little boy who no longer wanted to be photographed, or look at a camera, or even have the camera pointed in his direction stop us? NO. So, for his mom (who, by the way, can throw a happenin' birthday party - that makes all the adults want to stay and hang out too, and makes me want to have my kids write thank you notes just for being able to go :) this one's for you...ok and I couldn't leave out the Neffinger family tradition.