Sunday, January 25, 2009

Updating for you the quest to get a photo of those babies...the picture that was meant to be

...As related by Justin

"Joelle & Jack are back in town, so we were planning on trying our luck at another photo of the 5 new grandbabies for the West Indies mission home wall. Joelle found us some formal baby attire, and after lunch and some shopping, we started to gather back at my place for the picture. It had been raining all day, which is very rare at 7000 ft in January, and by 3pm or so it had turned to snow and Jenny's miniminivan couldn't make it up our street. She turned back to park at the entrance to our neighborhood and then catch a ride with someone else, but in the process she got stuck in the parking lot. We couldn't push her out, so we made a trip back to the house to get Cooper and a rope to tow her out, and she was going to hit the road because it was snowing pretty hard and starting to get dark. We were going to cancel the photo so Jenny could make it home safely. We towed her out without a problem, but then her car battery was dead! So we made yet another trip to the house to get jumper cables, and thought we might as well take a quick picture or 2 after all. The snow had let up, and the babies were relatively well behaved, and we were able to get Jenny & Jamie on the road before dark."









But the best photo of all has to be:



"Sorry, Henry, we forgot that you don't know how to sit up yet."

"Bye Jack! Thanks for visiting... All your little cousins are jealous of your fancy 'Ed Hardy' apparel. (OK, you're right... they don't care, but their mommies think you're cool)"

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Challenge of Getting A Picture






In 2008, we had five grandsons who were born. Prior to this we had 8 granddaughters and only 2 grandsons. Last night, the grandchildren were together for the first time since the birth of the two youngest grandsons a month ago.



Getting all 15 grandchildren to look at the camera at the same time, to not cry, or to even stay awake was an impossible task.



Ah, we almost got one, but Sylie (age 2) has decided this is too late at night to be trying to get a photo.