Family Pictures 2015

I wanted a Christmas card picture, so we set up the tripod and only expecting to get half of us to be smiling or looking at the camera or not blinking, we miraculously got everyone smiling, looking, and not blinking! A Christmas miracle!

I tried for a few minutes to get a couple of pictures of the kids, but they were too hyper, so I managed to get a couple of me and Josh. 

Picture Of the Month

Kiron suggested to me that I take a picture of the kids in the same spot every month for a year. We started out in Idaho, before we knew we'd be moving. In February, we decided to move, but we kept going anyway. We chose to do it in front of a cornfield, because it was right next to our house, and it changes a lot each month, so it was fun to see those changes. Then in July we chose a lake, which was harder to do because we had to drive there, but we did it! It ended up being a fun project, except they were so sick of it by the end of the year, they are really happy to be done with it.

 

 

 

New Year's Eve

This sums up our New Year's.

 



Mad Face Tanner

Have I posted this face before? This is Tanner's mad face. We see this daily. For Christmas Kathryn sent us a punching bag, which is the best thing ever. All the kids love it, but Tanner just goes at it with all he has. And then as I was looking at pictures, and then glanced over at the punching bag boxer guy, I made the realization that Tanner and him are twins.

Exactly the same. Hilarious. 

Zoo

We had a day out at the zoo the day after Christmas because it was 75 degrees, so we couldn't exactly cuddle up at home drinking hot chocolate.

 



Christmas

The night before Christmas.....

Tanner doesn't sit still long. We had the missionaries over, and one of them said he has a 3 year old brother. I asked him if he's as crazy as Tanner, and he said without hesitation, no.

 

Leave it to Jayden to give his snowman poop. 

 

 

I don't really take pictures on Christmas Day anymore. It's a tornado of wrapping paper, and laughter, and excitement. We are so content to sit in our pj's all day, not caring about the mess, and no pressure to be anywhere. I love it.

Kidisms

Sidney was playing dress up with my dress one day. Tanner thought we were going to church, so he ran to his closet and pulled out a church shirt, shorts, socks and sandals. He wanted in on the picture too.

The kids made sleighs out of extra Amazon boxes we had sitting around. They decorated them with stickers and markers. At first they were trying to pull Tanner around in them, and when that didn't work, we got out their stuffed animals. Good times had by all.