School Pictures 2010

Okay, I'm a push over for pictures. This is no surprise to my family who all have this weakness but others may not know that I have been taught as a child the importance of photographing every possible moment of my life. My good father took care of that while I was too little to do it myself (and ever since), but I took over some responsibility as soon as I was given my first camera. I love pictures.

So, when it's school picture time, I fret over how many I can afford, what's reasonable (to Casey), and what I feel I truly NEED. It's a hard line to walk, folks, especially when you have no idea how they'll turn out. Luke may be having one of those weird days when he feels he's too cool for pictures, Katie Belle might have destroyed any evidence that I did her hair AT ALL, and, okay, I don't worry about Sadie. She worries enough for the both of us on picture day. =)

I took the risk anyway. I can't help myself. But I'm always so happy I did!

Easter with Family

Spring break was good to us and allowed us to spend Easter with family this year. We spent the weekend with grandma and grandpa and the kids had a great time! The weather was crazy, though, and we woke up to a good layer of snow Saturday morning. Some Easter egg hunts got cancelled and it was really cold so eventhough a few ventured out and found eggs, we decided to have a family easter egg hunt when it warmed up a little. The kids loved it! We couldn't believe how you could hide eggs out in the middle of the grass and they seemed to disappear!

The next day as we were leaving the kids, Casey and grandpa got into a snowball fight. Luke got one to the face and although pretended to be upset, he LOVED every second of it! Brian and grandpa taunted him as we drove off. Ahhh...it's good to be with family.