Southern Family Pictures!

Imagine . . .

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One beautiful September day . . . $0.00

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18 well dressed adults . . . $ ??.00

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19 well dressed (absolutely crazy) kidlets . . . $ ??.00

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Family Pictures with all 37 family members

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Priceless!!!

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Ha, Ha, ok, I'm done with the Mastercard commercial now!

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So, obviously, we had the Southern Family pictures taken last Saturday. It was . . . really there are so many adjectives one could use here- so I'll let you pick your own. So it was so [insert adjective here].

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No, really- it was great. It was so fun to have everyone together in an unconfined space (as opposed to someones living room! that can get kinda crowded!) So here's kinda an overview of what happened: (WARNING- LOTS OF PICTURES!! SORRY!)

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We all met at the Thanksgiving Point water tower at 10 am. and really- wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, we were all there on time!!!!!!!!! Yeah- for those of you who know the Southern Family, that rarely happens~ if ever! so yeah for once- we were all there on time!!! YAY US! There was just one problem!

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The Photographer wasn't on time.

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That was just a little problem. So we had to try and keep 19 little kidlets busy until she got there!! Fun for us!!!

Joe-joe didn't really want to have his picture taken at this point. Things did not bode well for us.
Lizzy and Gramma having a cute little chat! Look how cute they are!
Waiting . . . and trying to find the photographers phone number! (Look how SKINNY Emmy is! She looks amazing!)

Katie and Sabrina. This was the beginning of the monkey-ness.
Joshie climbed all the way up the the cross in the bars. For those of you that have not been there, his feet are about 5 feet above ground right now! crazy kid!

Brendan and Brayden with Stacey looking on! Brendan is a little cheeser!! Everytime I turned my camera to him he got this great big smile on his face!! what a cutie!
Holly,Ethan, Lizzy, and Kate just chillin. I think this was ALL the chillin the kids did, and they only sat there for about a minute!
Just waiting . . . and chatting. How cute are they!
Sweet little Brianna gets a little shy when there are lots of people around. Later on she became my little buddy. She let me carry her around for a while. I so heart her!!
Joe-Joe wanted to be like the big kids- climbing all the way up! (He had help, obviously!)

Jenni and Annika- just being cute!
Joe-joe said "Take a cheese of me momma!" so I took a cheese of him!! Again, he was trying to be like the big kids!
Finally, the photographer got there- about 20 minutes late. Here's some of us walking to the gardens. (And yes- everyone in this picture is in my family, with the exception of the photographer way in the front- and this isn't even everyone!)
Jenni, Jenny and Emma being cute!

Finally, all the entire family pictures were done, so I stole Jenny away from everyone else to take some family pics of just us! They turned out all right- although Jenni and Joe-joe were both SO DONE! The only way we got Joe-joe to smile was to have me tickling him! but still- we are cute! Yay for families!
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So, after all was said and done, it didn't take too long! (Well, let me rephrase- we didn't have the photographer take pics of our family, so we were able to leave after the big family pics was done)
When we got into our car to leave it was about 11:30. So it only took about an hour to do the whole family! not too bad!
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And finally- I have to give props to one person in particular- because without her we wouldn't have even had these pics taken! To Emilee I say thank you thank you thank you for all the work you put into this. I know you had to put up with a lot of stuff from everyone- so thank you so so so much! I will be forever grateful!
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YAY FOR EMMY!!!!
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and for those who are not in our family, here's a list of all the people that were there:
(Adults are underlined, Kidlets are in italics)
Dad, Mom, Dave, Mel, Annika, Meika, Janice, Jennifer, Jonathan, Tiffany, Holly, Brendan, Mike, Janelle, Kate, Lizzy, Sabrina, Adam, Stacey, Joshie, Brianna, Brayden, Camden, Seth, Karla, Ethan, Logan, Truman, Dannan, Emilee, Daniel, Emma, Matthew, Michelle, Steve, Jenni, Joe-joe.
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Sorry if I missed anyone!!!

and sorry this post is so long!!!
k, thats all!
chelle