What an afternoon......

My Meme cooked a wonderful lunch today for my family. Connor and Caroline enjoyed some quality family time with their cousins. Today was Connor's first Sunday eating at the table with the other kids.

Here's a picture of Kade, Connor, Brock, and Bailey eating lunch. Connor and Brock have their shirts off because we were going to take pictures afterwards, and we didn't want them to stain their clothes! Connor is a "messy Marvin" when he eats!

So after we ate, we attempted to take some pictures. We started with a group picture with all five great-grandchildren. I don't have any of these. Lauren took them all because I was busy chasing down children.... We would get everyone in position, and one of the children would take off running (mostly Connor). After we exhausted ourselves with the group shots, we started taking individual pictures.

Cousin Brock smiled for his pictures. He's so cute!

Caroline didn't smile, but she looks like such a big girl sitting up. She's not doing it by herself. Lauren is behind the pumpkin in the corner holding her up....

I didn't get any good individual pictures of Connor. He was in the worst mood ever! He ran, pouted, screamed, and cried... Here's one of him after we caught him and made him sit still. He's sweaty and hot.



Here's Caroline with cousin Bailey.



After the grown-ups got the kitchen cleaned up, they came outside to watch the spectacle. My mom (MawMaw) decided she wanted her picture taken with her three grand-kids. Here's one that truly shows how our afternoon went! Look closely at Connor and Caroline. He's pitching him one, and she's sleeping right through it!

Here's a close up of our sweet Caroline sleeping. I couldn't resist.

After the picture taking failed, we raked up a big pile of leaves and let the children play in them. Connor had a blast! I snapped a few pictures... Notice he enjoys playing with the leaves a whole lot better than posing in pictures for mommy!

Maybe I'll try to retake some fall pictures with Connor and Caroline again this week. It was so crazy I didn't even get to take any in their new Kelly's Kids outfits. Happy Fall everyone!