Homemade Christmas Portraits

Some of our ideas for poses looked a little goofy. But since we took so many photos and labored so hard, I thought it was only fair that they got published somewhere! Man, was I burning up in that sweater. One coincidence that I didn't notice until I put our two Christmas cards up from the past two years is that we are all wearing the same colors as the year before! Isn't that so funny. Geez, whoever picked out the outfits must really like those colors together. How funny.

How Lincoln Reacted...

"Gosh...this is so boring. Can't we go play with some toys? Do we have to take so many?"

"Okay, I'm starting to get a little smothered here! I can't handle this anymore. I'm gonna scream!"

"Okay, really. Can we just stop now. Nanee, please stop taking photos. Don't listen to mom, I'm the boss." Hilarious!

Bright 'n' Early!

Lincoln had just woken up and all of us were hanging out in the study. Lincoln was making some funny faces so we grabbed the camera. This pose is hilarious! I don't know how he came up with it. You can just imagine what he's thinking.

This pose was sweet. He looks so innocent. Thought these would be fun for people to see. I figure the more of Lincoln the better!

Watchin' Football

Lincoln and Nanee relaxing. See Lincoln's head resting on my mom's shoulder? Yeah, not fair. He never does that with me, but has done it several times with his Nanee. Isn't the sweetest thing, but I have to admit that I'm a tad jealous. I want to cuddle with Lincoln.

Lincoln got a haircut recently with the buzzers (I can't think of the name!). He's really good for me when I do it. Doesn't mind it much. His hair is so fine, though, that I have to go over it several times to make sure I don't miss a chunk, so it can take a while. He looked so much older when I cut his hair, it was crazy. He looked so cute that it reminded me of when I buzzed Jon's hair (right around Lincoln's baby blessing, I think.) so I got this sudden urge to buzz Jon's hair so that they could look alike! Jon's like, "Yeah right!" It's a good thing because I would have missed Jon's curls. Funny though.

Lincoln's Lil Buddy

Carson and Lincoln.

This is Carson's mom, Vickie. To her right is his daddy, Travis. They are 3rd yr dental students. We love them. Just recently we've started to get together with them and some other friends every Wed night to play games. We're really grateful to have such fun friends. The people here have been so great to us.

Carson is 4 months older than Lincoln. However, they are about the same height, so they work really well together. (Can you believe that Lincoln's got bigger feet? I guess that isn't too surprising since his mom wears a 9.5 and Jon wears a 14!) They're both pretty gentle boys and get along really well. Vickie has the funniest story about them: she had them in the same stroller coming back from the park. Lincoln started gabbing away and then Carson started responding back by gabbing back to Lincoln. They would take turns talking and then start totally laughing in unison. Vickie couldn't contain herself and thought it was the funniest and cutest thing to witness!

Thanksgiving!
(at our house)

The Elders came. Well, it was actually like a ward missionary correlation meeting reunion since all of us we celebrating Thanksgiving together. Jon's the ward missionary leader and I'm a ward missionary. Speaking of which, this past Sunday (in January) Jon was asked to organize a missionary sacrament meeting. He chose the speakers and music and prayer givers. He did a really good job. Our ward has a new game plan on helping the members feel comfortable spreading the gospel, and Jon did a really good job explaining that. Our missionaries right now are fabulous and they're really doing a good job helping the members.

The gallery became the play room for all the kids. We had 5 young ones and four teens. It was a blast. Everyone did really well. Thank goodness we had enough rooms for the toddlers to take naps in. That was great.

Tired? Happy? Full? Yes. It went really well. I was thrilled to have so many people over. It was fun seeing all the dental boys talk shop and the babes play together. Plus, the food was superb. Yummy!

A couple of the guys. In total there were 22 mouths to feed. Pretty cool. We love Thanksgiving. Hopefully next year we can spend it with family, though. This was a special group because all of us didn't have family close by, so we substituted as each other's for the day.