fall family shoot

we randomly decided to go take some pictures one day at my parents house a few weeks back. they have some corn fields behind their property and we were feeling festive in our autumn clothes as we were on our way to pick out some pumpkins. my niece took some great pictures of us as a family!

Liam is 3 months!

 3 months old!

This little boy is starting to be not so little. Some milestones and highlights of the month included:

• first time sleeping in his crib!
• speaking of sleep... he is sleeping 8 hour stretches. hooray!
• loves to kick his legs all the time. well he loves moving in general. in the morning we find him in his crib completely turned around.
• is fascinated with his hands. looking at them and eating them
• he's becoming a regular chatter box. making all sort of sounds that resemble "whoo"
• starting to giggle ( especially when daddy make his monkey face)
• we had our first long car ride with liam up to the mountains to visit jason's family. he slept most of the way.
• he's just starting to grasp things with his hands and can even hold his own bottle, though i'm not sure he realizes what he's doing yet.
• jason got to pick out his first piece of clothing for liam, the above outfit pictured. (it even glows in the dark). he insists it's not costume but for everyday wear. its' that awesome :)

sporting his new sweater i just finished knitting him. it only took about four tries to get it right.

some more homemade knits!

"super- liam!!!!!" he loves this!

keeping daddy company while he stacks firewood

enjoying his new homemade baby gym! thanks grandpop rittenhouse!

fall fun

this past monday we went to visit jason's family, a couple hours up north! it was liam's first long car ride! he did great! i spent most of the day with this beautiful lady, taking her senior pictures. we had a blast. this is just a fun little sequence i shot.

golf cake

i'm taking orders again! snacky french has been on maternity leave, but slowly i'm getting back into the swing of things. here's a cake i did recently for a surprise 60th birthday!

raspberry picking

a couple of weeks ago we all went raspberry picking with my mom to brumbaugh's farm. it was a beautiful day and we all had a lot of fun! liam just slept right through it. maybe next year he'll be picking some with us??