August updates!

It doesn't feel right that I just posted a Fall post and now the first picture below are my kids at the pool.  Such is life these days friends.  I am pretty sure when photography season slows down, aka December I will have much more time to blog.  Or so I think :)  Anyway, until then I will slowly update you all with the photos I've been taking!  August was so fun - and I feel like now that Jake is in preschool I can appreciate it even more.  I was just talking to some friends this morning about how this is such a different season than any other season I've been in.  Play dates really do feel like a thing of the past right now.  Our days consist of dropping Jake off at school, then heading home for Cole to take his nap, picking Jake up, heading home to eat lunch, Cole goes down for his second nap, then we usually go on a walk before Dan comes home and we have dinner!  What used to be a pretty relaxed schedule has quickly picked up.  Jake is loving preschool and Awana and soccer and all the other fun Fall activities, but it definitely is a change from the low key, "what are we going to do today?" summer.   We spent a lot of time at the pool, lounging in backyards and playing with water tables, swinging on our new swing set, and scoping out new photography locations (the last couple photos of Cole :)  And I also forgot that I was able to snap a couple other pictures of one of Jake's games!  So here they are!  Enjoy :)

Apple Picking 2016

All I have to say is that I am so thankful for friends who schedule dates to go apple picking months in advance.  (yay Becca!) Because I really do love it- but I am such a short term thinker - that's why Dan and I work so well together, he's big picture and I plan out the details to make it happen.  Unfortunately he isn't big picture in terms of Fall.  Which is totally ok.  Eventually he'll convert over in realizing how amazing Fall is.  Until then, I will drink my pumpkin spice lattes, burn my pumpkin candles, and use my pumpkin soaps until December.  Because in my mind that is how long we can celebrate Fall- until Thanksgiving is over :)  

Anyway, all of our friends realized was we were walking up to the orchard that we started doing our apple picking adventures when I was pregnant- maybe just 6 weeks or so?- with Jake!  I don't even think we had told more than 5 people. And this my friends, is why I keep a blog.  Because I was able to look back almost 5 years ago to find that post haha.  What is crazy is it feels just like yesterday we were at the Orchard together with just us couples!  However, I think we would all admit that although we are all juggling more kids and pushing strollers and rushing home to beat the meltdowns, we wouldn't trade any of it for the world.  I am so thankful for this group of friends and for all of their adorable kids that we get to hang out with.  

We did everything we wanted- bought apple butter and pumpkin butter, ate tons of apples, drank apple cider and ate apple donuts, rode the tractor, and picked apples.  It was such a fun afternoon and a great way to start off this wonderful season :)

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