What are your thoughts?

When we were in St. George at Christmas time (see post below...like 3 down) we had our family pictures taken with everyone and in individual families (Thank you Grandpa and Grandma). Now I am trying to decide which one to blow up big for our wall. We have never had a picture bigger than an 8 x 10 of our family and I am quite excited at the prospect, but now comes the pressure of deciding which one to use!

I had originally thought to do this one as it is the most formal:

So, I made an 8x10 of this one for another place in the house:

Having this one up has made me fall in love with it though. I love the personality it shows...especially in Nathan. My biggest hang up is Jacob's facial expression...poor kid!

Other Christmas Fun

I came home from some evening activity I had a day or 2 before our trip hoping that maybe some of the preparations had been accomplished while I was gone. I came home to find this instead:

It was better than a gazillion preparations!

We were lucky enough to have Santa and Mrs. Claus visit us one Saturday evening. Silly Mom forgot they were coming and happened to put the kids to bed an hour earlier than usual. Arg. Luckily Nathan was still awake.

We couldn't get Brielle to wake up for the life of her. Luckily we got a priceless picture of Dad sitting on Santa's knee though!

In a Timely Fashion

Brielle filled her fuzzy jar! Yipee! She has been practicing doing things in a timely manner. What was her prize? A pink watch! Hurray!