Monday, January 3, 2011

Shaking it off...

Happy New Year! 

Looking forward to a happier, healthier, smarter New Year full of more love, more smiles, more pictures, more confidence, more fun, more memories, more family adventures, more success, more direction, more clarity...shaking off the past year, thankful for all of the good and bad, for it has made us stronger, thankful for all of our friends and family, thankful for our growing relationship with God, and more aware of what is truly important.

Clap, Clap!  Moving right along!

A special visit...

Our Nephew, Xander was diagnosed with 'Type ALL Leukemia' this past spring.  It has been a really rough year for the little man, but he has been under great care, and we were lucky enough to be able to see him over the Christmas break.  My Brother-in-law Gavin and sister Carol were able to pick him up after the Christmas blizzard, and bring him down to VA for a few days of adventures including trips to the Grumpy's firehouse, the barn to see the horses/burros/chickens, and the zoo...oh wait, I mean our house to see Chase and Addy ;) 

We TRIED our hardest to get a good, smiling picture of all 3 of Grammy and Grumpy's grandkids, I snapped over 50 frames, and this is what we got:

Take 1

this is never going to work

Chase...really?

Chase...seriously, that is not a good look for you kid...Addy, camera is over heeeeere!
OK, it's confirmed that Chase and Xander have teeth...Addy, you are killing me

Ok, Grammy and Grampy might just have to settle for having 3 goofballs!!

One last try!!!!  Smooches!!!  Muah!!
What can I say?  I won't be quitting my day job to take pictures!

3 comments:

Carol Rice said...

Good post! Xander is especially good at saying CHEEEEEESE! Love you!

The Pankau Family said...

don't worry i tried having 4 of the kids do the same thing. there is always one that is not smiling right or not looking at the camera. hopefully it gets better as they get older.

Unknown said...

Grammy loves them even though they are goofballs!!! They are MY goofballs!