Knight Photos

This past week my sister gave me the privilege of taking pictures of her family. The kids were so thrilled to do it too! (haha) Anyway, I hope she got some good pictures out of it. Some turned out better than others. It was fun for me. I feel like I learn something new every time I take pictures with my camera. So yeah, here are a few of my favorites.







These ones of Kia turned out the best. It helps that I had a dang cute model :)



Thanks again sheila and family! It was really fun to take pictures of new faces.

Cienna 3 months

Cienna is 3 months old! So crazy how fast time flies! It kind of stresses me out that it's flying by so fast.


Some of the things our "sweet C" has been up to. . .

• She still loves to eat (as you can tell by her sweet cheeks :)
  
• She isn't as huge of a fan of tummy time anymore. She doesn't hate it instantly but after about 10 mins she is done.
  
• She's now a babbler. She loves to have conversations with us and lights up when we talk to her.
• She holds her head up and likes to sit upright more during the day.
  
• She has begun to whack at a toy dangling in front of her. It's so cute, you can see the concentration in her face. And is getting better at holding on to little toys.
• She loves to suck on her fist and has gotten pretty good at finding it quickly when she wants it.
• And apparently she's a little apprehensive with strangers. Just recently she doesn't like anyone else holding her besides me or Joe. Hopefully its just a phase, but I also like the fact that she likes us, recognizes us and feels comfort with us.
  
• And as you can see below she has become even more smiley.
  

And she has a brother who loves her (most of the time).


We love you Cienna girl :)

Cienna's Blessing

Cienna Silvia Walker, received a name and a blessing by her daddy on Sunday Nov. 13th. It was a beautiful blessing. We are so grateful to all the grandparents who came :)
(Beware, lots of pics)



Jace and Grandpa Walker playing the day before.


My Grandparents on my Dad's side and Cienna the day of her blessing.

My Parents
Kisses

The men who blessed her. :)

Joe's Parents


Our Family

Jace and "School"

At the beginning of October I started doing what Jace and I like to call "school." However, it's not too much like real school yet. We mostly just do a craft or 2 and then he colors for a little while after. But I have found that it really helps on the days that it's cold out and being outside only lasts for about 10 mins. I have thought a lot about things I want to do for "school" this winter and hope Jace enjoys it as much as me.

Some of the things we did in Oct. We made. . .
A colorful fall tree out of torn pieces of construction paper (where he learned how to use a glue stick).
A pumpkin.
A spider made from part of an Egg Carton
Little Ghosts made from tissues
He also learned how to use "stamps" (just little foam shapes I found at the dollar store) and a stamp pad. A basic skill that's easy for a 2 year old to learn and have A Ton of fun with. The first time jace did it for over an hour.

If any of you have fun craft ideas for a 2 year old as well, I would love to hear what they are! I will also continue to post what we have done so if you want to do any of my ideas with your toddlers you can too. Not that they are that great, I just know it's hard to come up with things to do with them sometimes ;)

To make it feel more special, we get out his mickey mouse table and chair and he wears his "ART shirt" I just got a shirt that would fit an older child and wrote art shirt on it. It covers his clothes so I dont have to change his clothes after, or strip him down to his diaper before. Then I just throw the shirt in the wash every few times. So yeah, that's our "school" :P

Drum Roll Please. . .

JOE GOT INTO PA SCHOOL!!! A lot of you probably already know this because I posted my excitement about it on facebook when we found out, but I am just so excited for my husband. He has worked very hard and I am so glad a school saw what he has to offer. He got accepted into Touro University. It's the one in Las Vegas. It's starts the beginning of July, which means we will probably be moving sometime in June. We haven't heard back yet from the one in New Mexico, but I don't know that Joe really cares because Touro was his first choice. He just really thought highly of their facility and the staff that works there. So I am pretty sure we are headed there. :) Yay Joe! So proud :)

Halloween

Last year we went to this sweet pumpkin patch and chose our pumpkins. We loved it! It was so much more fun than just going to a store and getting some. So we looked forward to doing it again this year, and we had just as much fun! (This is a long post of pictures and stuff from the pumpkin patch and halloween day, again more for the record of my family) :)








I love this picture of Jace and Joe. One of my favorites I have of them, because Jace rarely looks at the camera and smiles, and Joe rarely gives me a normal smile. lol. Love my boys!


Carving the pumpkins

Jace and his pumpkin. He loved carving pumpkins! Mostly pulling all the goopy stuff out and then admiring his pumpkin outside afterwards.


Now these pictures are from Halloween day.

Cienna being festive

So I don't know why these are sideways, because they aren't sideways in my file. Anyway, I just wanted to post them because it's the first time I have caught her chunky grin on camera :)


Jace as Steve on Blues Clues. He loves Blues Clues. And was ecstatic when I showed him that I made him shovel and pale and a Handy Dandy Notebook.





Trick or Treating


So this last pic with the guy looking at me while I am taking the picture. Didn't like it too much that I was taking a picture. He kept staring at me and even kept watching us as we went to the next house. So he may be one of america's most wanted and doesn't want his picture being posted. lol. I dont know, but it was weird.


Great Halloween :)