Friday, January 27, 2012

2011 Behind the Scenes

A collection of several random pictures taken throughout the year of 2011.


   Early Spring 



Teaching little brother to walk 






Like two old men on a porch


A field trip for JR



Feeding brother popcorn with a spoon
 
 Summer 


A Concert 
Noah's Ark 




  FALL 



   

 Winter 


The UP House
 





We call this new pose for pictures, "The Smolder" 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

A Few Shots of Christmas



 Little Royce Cousins' nativity on Christmas Eve. 

Charlie Loving Baby Jesus 













Charlie chose not to dress up while Emerson chose to represent a camel. 

                                                  Robes made by Mimi




  Christmas morning wake-up 


We keep gifts from Santa simple and it pays off. Do you see how excited he got over this Connect 4 game? 




JR's Angry Birds Game. You can see I'm not an avid player with my setup. 




Washed out, but unfortunately the only pic together this day.

 Christmas Eve at Aunt Virginia's, fondu dinner with small children circling the room and fighting like cats and dogs, a comical yet spiritual nativity, Christmas morning surprises, church with Dad and brother followed by gifts and breakfast, brunch at Royce's with gifts, and a yummy dinner at Mom's. Like every other year, Christmas celebrations flew by and ended before we knew it. Now, on to a new year!

Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Card 2011

It was my first year sending out family picture Christmas Cards. Family pictures. What a nightmare. Bless you photographers that do this professionally. I hope there are children that cooperate better than mine.

This is how everyone really felt about them: