Sunday, January 23, 2011

*B* Family

(*ps we didn't color coordinate, we honestly had no idea we were going to take pictures that night, it worked though!)

I'm SO behind on this blog and it's not a fun feeling, BUT I wanted to finish my digital photo book from 2010 and that was just more exciting and I LOVE IT (got it in the mail yesterday, couldn't be happier)... My sisters family was here over Christmas so we were able to take pictures of the whole family together which only happens every other year - so it was fun to all be together!

I remember when my older brothers went on their missions and I was kind of devastated because I knew our family would never be the same, we would never live all 6 kids in the same house again - it was like the end of our "growing up" years together! I was really sad because shortly after they left, my older sister went away to college and I was the oldest child all of a sudden, it was fun don't get me wrong but I really missed having older siblings around that were always doing "cooler" things than me. Now that we are all older and married it's just as fun watching each other raise our own families - but I often remember the fun times we had living under the same roof!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Christmas Part 1


First off, my kids love to be *silly* and it's hard to get a photo of them all looking in the same direction and smiling!!! Anyway Weston was scared of Santa this year but was more than excited to get a Candy Cane from him without sitting on his lap - the girls loved it and Ashlyn especially loved telling Santa what she wanted this year!



My sisters family comes to visit during the holidays and we went to the best park in the area - who doesn't love a fully shaded park in Arizona (especially the summer?) The kids can't get enough of this huge place and the adults like it also!




Great Gpa Salmon and the kids


Aunt Mel and sweet Stella


All the kiddos, minus Stella - she was loving her car seat at the moment! Wished Steve and Kadee's kids could have come too... missed you guys!