snaps in between speed walking

i haven't even had time to post about shay's most recent trip to nyc... boooooo! shay posted some highlights and eventually i'll put together my pictures too, but until then i'm tossing up some of the shots we snapped while racing through the park on our 3rd of 4th attempt to win the wicked lottery (dont worry we finally did!) yay for pretty shay!

thats my girl!

fall frenzy

after the syrup that is august passes the pace of the life picks up considerably. we typically have guest after guest until we are slammed with holiday madness and crash into the new year (& i wouldnt have it any other way) we kicked off the guest-a-polooza with the spencers (& all was right again in NYC)

they were hoping for some crisp fall weather, but it ended up being pretty lovely for most of their trip (#sorrynotsorry) we spent saturday morning wandering the park and snapping pics.

she kills me.

kills me dead.

even when she is so serious you don't know what to do with yourself

and especially when her little belly peeks out.

wake up jon!

pit stop

hg makes pregnant look so good!

then we rounded-up the rest of the team (missing a few) and headed to a park... inside the park.

i call this O and his urban mama

i mean fall right out of your chair cute

ygbg's yearly

in the fall mb and I master minded our annual shoot for jane's carosel. which we followed by brunch at bubby's. we have a very limited window of time the boys will entertain each other while we try and trade off snapping shots of each other.

usually some of this happens... shortly there after they declare we are finished and we have to find breakfast post haste, but we always get a few winners. thanks maribeth! 

see the rest over here.

over the river and through the woods

we checked a few items off the autumn checklist with this afternoon. half the fun of this outing was the drive. i miss driving. i miss cars in general. {taxis do not count as cars, they are more like carnival rides that are sketchy/give you motion sickness} it was so nice to just hop in, play the radio, and relax. 

we drove up to a little place called heaven, where we celebrated jordan's bday last year.

choruses of angels singing...

the one bad thing about fall... spidey season

we had a light lunch {had to save room for the donuts to come}

sadly the cafe was good, but not nearly as wonderful as the restaurant. that said the peach jam i bought BLEW MY MIND. ive been having toast and jam everyday since. 

off to pick us some apples as per tradition {I & II}

we both wished we had worn shorts and sandals. it was a very warm fall day. can't win em all. we did however see the cutest toddler draggin along his apple basket singing about "team work" 

that was a win. 

this was the other win!

we picked out a perfect medium sized pumpkin for dinner in pumpkin!

and we took some apple raspberry pie a la mode for the road, YUM!