Dogs of November

I have started our November Web Album, but to this point there are not many pictures in it...Mostly some shots my mom wanted me to get of Eli in this dog sweater. Once upon a time, that was my sweater. Below is a picture of Lukas in the same sweater, circa March of 2007 in Muskegon, Michigan.

I'm sure we'll have more pictures in that November web album eventually, as there is a Thanksgiving trip to Ohio in the works. Also, the savings account bunny might be bringing me a new camera soon to replace/upgrade our small digital point and shoot camera, and as we all know new cameras bring lots of new pictures with them. For the record, this will be the first major purchase made in the post-credit card era for the Vore family, so that's exciting...we've made that switch from buying now, paying later and instead are operating on the save-for-it-now, buy-it-when-you-actually-have-the-money principle. Novel, I know, but a good and healthy step for us.
I'll let you guess who that is in the helicopter wearing the Famous Dog Sweater. Circa...1985-ish.

Halloween stopped by, then it went

Lukas was a bumblebee this year. This was a costume I wore once upon a time, or perhaps it was my brother (or perhaps both). The picture above is from his first ever school Halloween party, which was lots of fun.

Kylie was the exact same pumpkin Lukas and Eli were once up a time. She was so happy...We're guessing she didn't mind too bad. Kylie didn't go trick-or-treating, she stayed home with me and helped hand out candy.

Eli wore a costume that used to belong to my brother-a family treasure. He especially loved the jingly bells that went around his ankles.

Pumpkin Patch Remix: The Pumpkin Posse

I'm sure I've seen this photo before, just with different people in it. I'm also sure it was on the cover art to a rap album.

Pumpkin Patch

The annual trip to the pumpkin patch this year was wonderful...great weather for being outside, it was like 68 that day and the sun was just starting to set. Also great: the boys were in a good mood and sat still well for pictures.

The fall colors were out, bright orange in the pumpkins, faded green in the grass and that gorgeous Kansas blue sky.

Hello Eli, is that a heavy pumpkin you have there?

More photos available for viewing in our October Web Album on Picasa, which is now complete.

Portraits

As mentioned below, our time at the beginning of September was spent in Michigan. A great friend, Paul Petersen, took family portraits for us. His work is always very good. He's also very gracious, and didn't charge us a dime even though we practically threw our money at him. These photos, and others in our September Web Album on Picasa (see link to the right of this blog post), are mostly photoshopped by me, not him. If they look not quite professional, I'm sure it is my fault not his!

No, really, she don' like that stuff

In September Kylie grew up enough to start on solid food. This was fun. We started out with baby cereal, and she had a pretty hilarious response to that...It took a few weeks of trying before she'd attempt to swallow the cereal. She does much better now and has progressed to the usual Gerber assortment. Yum.

Also done: September

September saw us travel up to Michigan so I could attempt to ride my bicycle 300 miles in 4 days on the DALMAC bike ride. I got the flu, or something like the flu, before the ride and only made it 150 miles 2 days before my body basically threw a fit on me. The picture above is of our friend in Michigan, the great Paul Petersen. He took our family portraits while we were there, and is quite talented. He also convinced Eli that he had 'whisker seeds' on his face, and that if Eli would 'pluck' them and 'plant' them on his own face, with about 15 years of 'watering' them they would sprout into his own whiskers. This provided about 30 minutes of entertainment for Eli.

Kylie's dress in this picture is actually Lindsay's dress. Good excuse to try some portrait type shots of our baby girl. She crawls now, which is ridiculous, and is going to be walking in about 3 weeks ago.

We've had lots of trips to KC lately, and the boys have enjoyed seeing their grandparents. Eli and his grandma rough-housing: cute. More of (mostly) the same available in our September Web Album over on Picasa.

August is Done

Yes, I'm sure you're thinking "Why is Jeremie announcing that August is 'done' a full 50+ days after the month actually ended?" Well, when I say 'done' I mean that I've finished my photo editing for the August pictures. There are only a few additions to our August Web Album on Picasa, to include these shots from once upon a time before the Buckeyes were terrible. Ok, they're not terrible now but they sure aren't as great as we were hoping they were going to be back in August before we knew better. One day way back then Grandpa Keef and Namma Joodie brought the boys some Buckeye gear. Eli got a new uniform, helmet and shoulder pads, and both boys got some eye-blacks to go with their uniforms. Lukas, as usual, had to perform.

Boys Having Fun

Again, we were out late in the evening and the sun was so close to setting the color cast on the shots was very very...orange. My photoshop kung-fu is just not strong enough to overcome that and make it look 'right,' so the answer? Have fun with the color effects! Some sepia shots of the boys out on 'the farm' just to the southwest of Waterville.

Yeah, so...

I'm a bit out-of-order with my photo editing lately...I don't have my August album finished and my September album has not been started, so why not post some of my better October pictures? Whatever! Above we have Eli and his friend Josie being adorable, also below and...below.....

These shots were taken at Josie's house, which is out in the country just a couple miles and set on a very lovely hilltop view. The sun was very close to 'setting' in the Kansas evening and the light was very orange. The color on the pictures did NOT look good, but the shots were cute...so why not convert them to black and white? I'm glad you agree.