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Let's talk about the REAL faces of Family Picutres...

These are just 4 of about 400 photos of Logan giving "stink eye". Turns out he couldn't smile because of his loose tooth....yep, loose tooth. In this photo, I'm nudging him in the back, and frank's threatening him through his teeth...happy, right? When threats didn't work, we tried bribary...Spaghetti Factory, rest of the day off school, even Lagoon! Stubbon kid - nothing worked.


So, Frank told Logan that he could pick mom or dad to take him on a quick walk...you can guess who he picked :) During our little heart to heart, I gently told him that if he couldn't smile, I would sell his wii on KSL to pay for the photo shoot that he ruined. Tears came flowing, and I told him "see...you can cry just fine with your loose tooth, just do that without the tears, and it'll be great!" Well, Carly's no dummy. She saw all this attention Logan was getting and decided she wanted a little for herself. So we got another couple hundred pictures with Carly like this...

Well, Carly doens't have a loose tooth, so what possible excuse should she have? The picture below is her explaining to us that the reason she wasn't smililng was because she DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO LAGOON! Seriously.

I won't lie - Chase was a pretty happy fella. Chase loves a good pose - that was the only issue (I'll take it!). All sorts of "broadway-esque" expressions. But overall, he was pretty easy...

Since faces were NOT working for us, we tried other more attractive features...

like our feet...

or LEGS...

We decided to give the kids a break by letting them play on the trains camera free (well...almost).

Meanwhile me and Frank had our own little private photo shoot - I know Frank's been looking forward to this for a long time ;) I even made it into a wedding announcement just to be funny!

Turns out a little playtime was just what the kids needed. Too bad that was like an hour and a half into the shoot! By then, me and Frank were D-O-N-E...

AHHHH...the joys of family picture day. Thanks Jodi for your PATIENCE! And for giving me all the out-takes. They make me smile :)

Baptism Day

Chase was so excited when he "passed" his baptism interview a few weeks ago. He went around telling everyone..."I passed"! We were all a little worried he might not make it ;)




These were taken BEFORE the baptism. He got his new scriptures with his name on it - way cool! The baptism was special, but what even made it MORE special was that he got to share the day with his best friend Allie. They were the only two in the whole stake getting baptized that day. They have been best buds since we moved here 5 years ago. They are SO cute! I couldn't help but giggle when they were on the stand together the next day sharing a hymn book singing their little hearts out! They were adorable, and just in case they end up tying the knot one day, I thought I'd take a quick shot of them in their formal attire - perfect for their wedding video...





Allie's brother gave the talk and my 5-year old niece Hannah sang "When I am Baptized". It was really sweet. Allie and Chase were fighting about who would be batized first (they fight like siblings). Allie won of course! Frank baptized Chase who gasped for air when he came up - HE NEVER PUTS HIS HEAD UNDER WATER. I was glad there wasn't a panic attack!

After the baptism, my niece Emma sang "Since this is counts as my family history too, I'm going to quickly list the guests who came to support Chase: Grandma and Grandpa Jenson, Stacy & Cade Seeley Family, Brad & Kalisa Jenson Family, Grandma Lancaster, Marsha Lancaster, Rick & Wendy Stringer, teachers Velma Clark, and Evelyn Gowans, Nora Maxwell, Bishop Devashrayee, Ashley & Gideon Cook, Sister Horiuchi, and all of our family of course!

I was thinking of all sorts of menu's, but Chase insisted on Pizza. Since it was HIS day, I wasn't going to argue (and because it would be WAY easy). We just ordered a bunch of Pappa John Pizza's and set it out buffet style. I made a big salad, lemonade, and VOILA!

Halloween 2010

It used to be so fun dressing the boys up for halloween. I could do whatever I wanted...they always thought it was cool. Those were the good old days! NOW....they just want to be black and non-descript. Luckily I have Carly...who will want to dress up til the day she dies. We found this dress, and I told her I would let her borrow my clip in hair extensions and she could be Rapunzel - she was over the moon!

I don't usually dress up...I was just called into the Young Women's and they were in charge of the primary party, so I threw this 'get up' together. Not really sure what I am...oh well :)

This year I sewed them each their own trick-or-treat bag to go with their costumes (didn't get a picture). Frank thought it was a waste of time and money, but it was pretty fun and felt good to be domestic for once. It was super rainy. Usually I stay home and Frank takes the kids out, but this year, I had the honors :) It was really fun!...and I'm not being sarcastic this time.

Proofreading

[proof-reed] noun to read in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.

Proofreading? Anyone heard of that? Apparently a have a few things to learn....I sent this baptism invitation out without doing that silly little task above, now I have everyone calling me asking if the baptism is on SATURDAY, or the 4TH...turns out Saturday's the 6th! It's cute though, right? Pesky little details!