Category: Family

We spent last weekend at my niece’s wedding in St. Cloud.  The weather was perfect (sunny and 63 degrees) and the wedding was absolutely beautiful.  Sophia was very excited about wearing her new dress.  Sebastian was not so excited about wearing dress pants, a white button down shirt and a tie.  I also made him get a haircut earlier in the week.  Let’s just say that I was not his favorite person last week.  I wish I would have taken photos of the wedding or even the reception site.  Kayla and Jason did an amazing job with planning every detail of their wedding day.  Since I am normally on the event planning side of weddings, it was nice just to sit back, relax and enjoy the evening.  I was also having a bit of camera/lens envy checking out the professional photographers that captured the whole event.  Luckily, Mike realized that I was looking at the cameras and lenses and not the two male photographers.

Here are a few photos I did take of Mike and the kids during the dance.

Sebastian and Sophia both had a great time enjoying the food, music and dancing.  They also loved staying overnight at a hotel with a sleep number bed and swimming in the hotel pool the next morning.  I think all of that made up for having to wear dress clothes to Sebastian.

Sebastian and Mike spent the afternoon raking leaves yesterday.  Although I didn’t help much, I did get some cute pictures of the kids and Daphne.

I usually take a lot more pictures of Sophia than Sebastian.  Sophia is typically very willing to pose for a picture.  It usually takes a bribe to get Sebastian to smile for the camera.

The kids both participated in the Halloween parade and classroom parties at school Friday.  Mike took his lunch hour to watch the parade and I took the day off to help in Sophia’s classroom with costumes and activities.  It was fun to see the kids’ excitement for the upcoming holiday.  Sophia was a cheerleader and Sebastian was Joe Mauer.

Sophia’s class made “spider” cupcakes, had popcorn with a Halloween movie, listened to a scary story and received a treat bag with candy and goodies.

After school was over, we decided to carve our pumpkin.  Sophia and Sebastian both agreed on a bat this year.

We spent Halloween day with yard work, errands and getting ready for the evening.  Sebastian switched costumes for trick-or-treating.  He was going for a scary look.  Sophia stuck with her cheerleader costume.

Sebastian did some early trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with Sophia and Mike.  He went to his friend’s house afterwards for more trick-or-treating and a sleepover.  He ended up with about 5 times as much candy as Sophia.  I’m sure we will have enough to last us until next year!