Late Night Photo Shoot

It's a Thursday night, 3 of the 4 have just returned from duck hunting, 2 of the 4 still have homework, the garbage needs to be taken to the curb, but it's only 9:30, so let's procrastinate a little longer.  Love these moments!

The Changing Season...

How can you tell when Fall arrives?  You can always tell at our home, these 3 are constantly in hunting mode.

Fall is the only time that my Zinnia's actually look healthy, just before the bitter nights turn them brown.

Soccer season winds down.  These 2 seem to blossom more each season.  Carley realized she was a pretty talented player with extraordinary moves.

Dallin was in demand and played for 2 teams.  The high school soccer coach is looking forward to his Freshman year.

Time to whack everything out of the flower beds.

Baseball champions smile for their winning season.  This crew went all the way this year!

Sunglasses are put safely away and summer vacations for treasured memories.

And we wait for these beautiful ocassions to come again next year.

Metal Mouth...

 I thought she looked fine!  But the orthodontist thought differently.  Well, hopefully he will enjoy his all-inclusive trip to wherever we have paid for him to go with all the metal that went into this mouth!

 She now has an expander on the top and I'm not sure what the contraption on the bottom is called.

Just like magic, it is in and will stay there for an entire year while we turn the key 10 times each month to make this large mouth even bigger??? 

She smiled through the entire ordeal and now her face is transforming with each turn.  She sounds like Darth Vador everytime she attempts to suck food out of her expander and rarely eats bread, it gets way stuck!  One great thing...she had no choice but to stop biting her fingernails, now she has the most beautiful nails we had no idea were even there!  When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!