Joyce family: December 2010

Zoo lights

Thanksgiving tradition involves going to see Santa at the Zoo lights following Thanksgiving dinner. This year was perfect, not too cold and barely anyone there.

Now if you know me, you know that I like to pick out my kids clothes. Well it just so happens that the day before Thanksgiving my grandmother showed up with a red cowboy hat for Avery. So naturally she decided on Thanksgiving she needed to be a cowboy. This meant no pretty lacey shirt to match her sister and she threw a huge fit over wearing her cowboy dress and hat and boots. So at first I was determined for her to wear the nice matching outfit that I had taken time picking out and matching the night before. Then I started thinking, is it really going to hurt anyone for her to dress like a cowboy on Thanksgiving? I mean, shouldn't I be thankful that I have a happy, healthy daughter that is alive and with me and so what if she wants to be a cowgirl. So here I present cowgirl Avery with her clashing red cowboy hat and pink cowboy boots :)

Sage the Owl

Seriously love this owl hat from the Gap. I saw it on the website and hunted it down because I needed to have it. It even comes complete with owl mittens.

Pumpkins

We got a little more creative with our pumpkins this year. Shane did the awesome wolf pumpkin on the right. I carved the Spookie owl pumpkin for Sage and the vampire bat pumpkin for Avery.

Halloween at School

Playground

Trick or Treating

Last year Tristan and I went shopping for his Halloween costume. He was super excited about his giraffe costume until he heard that all his preschool buds were being super-heroes. He really wanted to ditch his giraffe costume and trade in for something that blended in with the crowd. I insisted on him sticking with his giraffe costume and promised that next year he could be a super-hero. Can we say HELLO batman :) Avery was a beautiful pink fairy/princess compliments of her pal Sophie. Sage was an owl. I totally fell in love with this costume the minute I saw it on the Pottery Barn Kids website and snatched it up. Good thing since the costume sold-out well before Halloween and ended up selling for $150 on ebay.

Avery

You really get a glimpse of Avery's personality through her pictures. You never know what you are going to get with her.

Sage

Sage is at the age where it is impossible to get her to sit still or look at the camera. Even so, Jess was able to capture some great shots.

Tristan

Individual pictures of Tristan. We are growing his hair yet again and it's almost to the point where it is long enough to lay down nicely all around. Notice I said almost, hence the pieces in the back that refuse to stay down. Give it a month or two and everything will be in it's place.