Baby 3 Maternity Pictures - Updated

Cara posted our maternity photos and I LOOOOOOOVE them!
Here is the whole collection. 

http://blog.caraleonardphotography.com/the-brandt-family-edwards-co/

 

 

Feb/March Happenings

Macy & Bradley

We had Kari and Bradley over for lunch last week and Macy enjoyed making baby Bradley laugh! So precious. Signs of a good big sister to come???

Free Family Fun Fair

We love our town and all of the fun free things it has to offer families! The FFFF is a great annual event that we look forward to. Macy got her first full-face painting done...but she didn't like it! These smiles were gone quickly as other friends commented on it. She eventually said, "Mommy, can you take my kitty off? I don't like it." She was so self-conscious about it...so we whipped it off. 

McFarland USA

A quote I heard a lot this month was..."McFarland USA made cross country look cool!" What? We don't need a movie to make XC look good! This crew below already knows that! We went as a team on opening weekend. It was probably the most fun I have had watching a movie in a while! Now we are ready and pumped for track season! 

Track Season

We have begun! Bring on the snow and cold weather, just in time for track practice. Our kids have been troopers in the first two weeks though. I am maintaining my job as co-head coach until the baby arrives! 

 

Macklin Does Ski School

One of the local home-school moms organized a Learn to Ski day for our little ones! Normally this program is only offered through the local schools. It is $37 for two days of ski school! What a deal! Average ski school is about $120 a day. Even though the first day was hard and tiring for Macklin, he really enjoyed the second day (after stuffing his pockets full of candy!). I am glad that he had the opportunity from Vail Resorts. 

 Maternity Pictures

We were able to do some maternity pictures in the snow with Cara Leonard! Can't wait to get them back in a few weeks! 

Snow!

It is not coming very often to Gypsum nor is it staying very long, but we had a few inches last week that made the town look beautiful! 

Art Work

Macy colored the pic on the left. She is focusing for a longer period of time on her art. (Note: I colored the top bird and bottom trees, but then she did the rest.) I am just impressed that she colored most of the paper in. Macklin did the one on the right. His drawings keep getting more and more detailed. 

Cute Kiddos

Sunny Day

Snow last week and sunshine and 50s this week. Picnic time! 

Fall Photo Shoot

 

After a rainy day last week, I decided that I wanted to take the kids for a walk around "downtown" Gypsum and take some pictures! We haven't done professional pictures in a while (a maternity shoot with Ben Dodds and a newborn shoot with Cara Leonard along with our Hawaii Pictures, all in 2012) and I have been leaving my camera at home a lot lately. 

Macklin

Oh, how I love the bow-tie. He actually wore it to church this morning and I was bummed that I missed a pic of him. Then, when we went to bed for his nap, he asked to sleep in it! So after his nap, we headed out with the bow-tie still on! Macklin is fun to take pictures of if you get him in the right mood. The pictures in front of the Old Gypsum Printer were great. Then he lost interest. As we were walking home, he was throwing rocks into the Gypsum Creek and I just had to snap a few more. His mood rebounded and I started clicking away. I love all of the goofy/serious ones as well since they show different sides of his personality. 

  

 

Macy

My little peanut is at a hard age to photograph. She is squirmy and won't sit in one place for long. She takes lots of candy corn to bribe her with and her poses are still kinda weird. Hard to ask her to smile, but we still managed some fun pictures! 

 

 

Macklin & Macy 

As if Macy wasn't hard enough on her own, add Macklin to the mix and a picture of them together is a hard shot. I still tried hard though :)

 

 

What happens when we are done trying to be cute....Puddle splashing and dirty shoes! 

 

The Out-Takes 

   

"Mommy, why does Macklin keep choking me?"

 

Here is what Macy really looks like....

fingers in the mouth, Taggie in hand....and..."More candy!!!!!"

Grandparents - Let me know if any one needs a picture emailed to them :)