I never imagined it would be this hard...

TO Get a GOOD picture of your kids together!!!

I don't know if any of you have tried to get a good picture of a 3 1/2 year old and a 6 1/2 month old but it has to be the most impossible thing in the world to do. Let me give you a taste of how it goes.

Bradley Hold your brother

"Oh look at the Christmas tree Wesley"

So then we tried props

and then a Book

"Wesley let me read you a story"

"Hey mom look what is on TV"

"But I want the book Bradley"

"Hey Mom, Look at Wesley - he looks like an elephant"

Then you try another pose

Bradley, stop trying to do push-ups

So then you just settle for a few candids that in the end will be your favorite pictures because they show their true personalities

and you might get a couple that are OK but at least both are looking at the camera and sitting still, they both might not be smiling but HEY you can't have it all.

Baby's First Christmas Then and Now

I thought this was cute - We tried to get a picture of Wesley in the Baby's First Christmas Hat - But like everything else we are running a little behind this time around. I hate to say everyone was right that you don't have as many pictures of the second one, you don't get their baby books done...etc. but so far it has rang true with us - Wesley's baby book is started but it is not where near being up to date and we may have as many pictures of Wesley (thanks to Mom and Wendy) but everytime we try and recreate a picture we loved of Bradley it seems we are a few months behind the age that Bradley was a the time - This was close as far as recreating the exact picture. Let's see Bradley's was taken in October (yeah we were on the ball then) so he was right at 4 months old and Wesley's was just taken the other day so his is about 6 1/2 months old. Anyway they are cute!

My Entire Family Got Elfed

OK They are going to kill me but My entire family has been elfed. Check them out:

Mom and Dad http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1444059883

Wendy and Jim http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1407742806

Nicki and Nick http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1474423629

They are all very funny!!

We've been Elfed

We've been elfed!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1354504357

Wesley's Baptism

Wesley was baptized on December 9, 2007. We had been putting it off because we hadn't been attending church regularly since Wesley is way more high maintenance than Bradley ever was. He is just not very content. Well, he has finally started being a much happier much more content child so we went ahead and scheduled it. It was a busy day - we went to church, went to see Santa, which we stood in line for over an hour, then home to a house full of family for dinner. It was nice but exhausting. Overall I was very proud of both of my boys they were both so good the entire day. Here are a few shots - I have tried not to post too many pics but it is hard to do when you have Wendy and Mom snapping pictures right and left and all are so good. Everyone have a Very Merry Christmas if I don't post again before then.

Dad, Mom, and I joined the church also. Since Jeremy, Bradley, and Wesley were all baptized there they are automatically members so Paster said he wanted the rest of the family to join so we did.

Christmas Photo Shoot

Wendy came down the other day to try and get pictures of the kids for Christmas - the key word here was try. Bradley wasn't very cooperative and Wesley just kinda sat there - he didn't smile much. I think the major problem was it was HOT - They had sweaters on and we had the fire going - just for the picture - and it was quite warm outside too - so it wasn't like we needed the fire. Anyway we are going to try again soon, but I thought you all might like to see some of them anyway.