Parties and Pictures!

Its been a fun and busy week! I've been trying to be productive and get things done before David gets home, but now that there's basically only two days left, it feels like I haven't done anything! haha My uncle Wes and his family are here visiting from Mexico, its so nice! I haven't seen Wes in a long time, and I've never met his wife before! So we got together to have sort of a birthday/bbq party and since most of my cousins served spanish speaking missions, we had them come along so Maria could actually talk to people instead of having Wes translate all the time. :) I hope it was nice for her, she's very sweet and nice and I wonder how awkward or hard that would be to not know the language of anyone around you! Also, before the party Lee and Megan came early so we could take some family pictures. Just so you know, I am a very dedicated photographer! How so? Well, we wanted to take some pictures out in the field, so I climbed the fence where there's a hot wire. I thought the wire wasn't on because I'd brushed against it and it didn't shock me. I wanted to make sure it really wasn't on before any of the kids came over the fence, so I pinched the wire between my fingers for all of two seconds and BAM! Yowsers that hurt! So I was electrocuted before we'd even taken any pictures! But I pulled myself together, flattened my hair down a little (wink, wink) and we started over, in the front yard. Away from the fence. It was a lot of fun to take their pictures, they were so good to work with! Megan had good ideas and they were all very patient. Its stressful taking pictures, all that smiling and junk! haha No, with trying to get your kids to look in the right spot and smile and put their hands down and all that, its hard! Addie and Zoe are gorgeous and I just adore them, I had a lot of fun trying to capture them (on 'film' that is!). I took almost 200 pictures, so I'm only going to add a few but I really do love them and I hope Megan does too!
















Whew! That was hard! I wanted to add about fifty more, but hopefully thats a little taste for you Megan! Hope you love them!