we’re baaack!
As much as I love to visit family, it’s always nice to be back home.
Today I’m finally getting things unpacked and getting back to my regular duties. We had a lovely time with Mike’s mom, siblings, and the cousins on Thanksgiving. There was more than enough food to feed the entire city of Excelsior, and everyone got to take lots of leftovers. Sadly, I was lazy and didn’t take one single picture from the day (or any days for that matter). You can head on over to Shoebox Princess’ site to see some of those. I got to spend a full day with two of Mike’s sisters, Sara and Jessie. We mostly just hung out giggling and eating, but a little stamping got done, too. It was a really fun time. Since we’re closer now to Mike’s family and can visit more often, we made the effort to see more friends this time. Hopefully, we’ll be able to catch up with other friends on future visits.
On Saturday morning, Uncle Jake cooked a spectacular breakfast for us. I wish I had a live-in chef. Afterward we headed over to Anut Dorothy’s house to pay a visit. We were not able to attend the funeral for Uncle Tom (Dorothy’s husband), so it was nice that we could at least spend a little time with Dorothy before leaving town. The last part of our day was spent with the Evans Family. We did a family photo shoot in a cute part of their town. I took their pictures, and then Sara did our family pictures. I’m pleased with so many of them. It will be hard to choose some for the Christmas card. I’ll just show a few here. Then see below about a slideshow of all the images.
The Evans.
The Hawleys. Yes, I only did some funkier stuff with our pics because I didn’t want to scare Sara.
I had a nifty slideshow embedded directly to here, but Sara says it’s not working for her. So here’s the direct link which also has much larger images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snappychic/sets/72157610655200062/show/
We headed out of town on Sunday. While Mike and I were packing things up the girls got to frolic out in the snow because it snowed a few inches. Brother Dave was generous enough to play along with Mike and give him some oil for his “project”, and we ate lunch at one of his hip and delicious restaurants. I had the butternut squash raviolis. I asked Mike if he thought Dave would give us the recipe for it because it was AWESOME.
December 2nd, 200810:23 pm at
The slide show thing won’t play for me! It says “Oh no! We couldn’t find anything!”
It was fun to have you here! Even if you wouldn’t stop talking about your butt.
December 3rd, 20082:14 am at
I don’t know what you did, but there is something so crisp about the photos that you took of that family. Wow.
December 3rd, 20082:23 am at
The pictures are so nice. WOW. I love the one of Jimmy looking down. Love all a them, really. Wish we coulda been up there, too. I was planning a long trip up there for Morgie’s senior year, but apparently we won’t have the whole week off again. It was really nice! We’ll see anyway. Now it is back to school for a few weeks!!
December 3rd, 20082:53 am at
Thanks, ladies. I really love them, too. We had so much fun which makes for better pictures.
Denise-
I think I’m just getting better over time, and I used a different lens that I got a couple of months ago. I won’t go into the technical details, but it’s a much sharper/crisper lens than my old standby.
December 3rd, 20081:11 pm at
You did a fantastic job editing! And you can always bring on the funky stuff with photos of my family. My children know I’m nothing if not funky!
December 4th, 20083:14 pm at
Yes yes, very good job on the pictures. I of course noted the glaring absence of “Onyx” but would sort of expect that considering your ‘traditional’ approach to the photographic arts. All of the Evans’ appear to be quite photo-hygenic (they make clean photos) and I only now noticed that they were all attired in the same motif. Jenny was lucky that I didnt have a T-shirt on as I was quite unprepared to be photographed. I am looking forward to seeing the Xmas cards that I am sure are being generated feverishly right now between the subject/provider duo.
Citizen
December 4th, 20087:48 pm at
darling family pictures! so fun to see sara too! and i knew dave was a chef but didn’t know where - the butternut squash ravioli sounds divine!
and you are so pretty! i love the last one of you and mike.
happy december