FAMILY PICTURES 2010

I have always been pretty good about having an annual family picture taken...until Tyler came along...I don't know what happened to my life, but family pictures just didn't happen - for 2 1/2 years! So, I decided that I was going to get on top of it again.


We had our pictures taken the first weekend of November and the weather was just perfect and the colors outside were great! Here's a run down of our family shots ...with my critique of the photos, of course...

First picture taken -

The Good: We are all smiles and all looking at the camera; not a bad shot of us

The Bad: I'm not quite sure where I'm going...

Second shot of the day -

The Good: Once again, love all the smiles and the foliage in the background

The Bad: Addie was having a hard time looking at the camera, and I told the photographer NOT to get a shot of Adam's white socks- grrr...I guess that's what photoshop is for! (is that being too picky?!?)

Third times the charm?

The Good: umm...nice foliage...and McKenna looks good, Addie looks good.

The Bad: This shot is probably my least favorite. I look like I'm getting ready to play a quick game of the hokey pokey (you put your right leg in, you put your right leg out...), Tyler looks less than excited to have this picture taken.

Last Chance:

The Good: We are all, once again, looking at the camera - all smiles even! Great color in the background!

The Bad: Through the whole shoot, I kept telling myself, "neck stretched, chin down" (that's the movie stars secret), but I didn't listen to my own advice....

o.k..all in all, I DO think the pictures turned out great! We are always our worst critic! I'm happy to mark that off my "to do" list and now all I need to do is pick my favorite and put it up on the wall (before it's out of date)!

"HUNDRED-AIRES"

A year or so ago, Adam had a salesman come in wanting to place a small, spinnning vending machine in the mail center - Adam agreed to let him. Well, the man never came and serviced it, so you would always seem to get crusty Hot Tamales, and stale peanuts whenever you used it (yuck).

So, the salesman came in a few months ago and Adam asked him if the guy made any money with the machine and the man told him that he actually wanted to get rid of it....Adam, always the entrepeneur, asked how much he wanted for it. Adam ended up buying the machine and came home to tell the kids they were about to start their first business! (cute huh)

Since then, McKenna and Harrison have been keeping candy filled up in the machine (with a HUGE help from Adam) and they get the money from the machine to put in their bank accounts...I am happy to report that we have two "hundredaires" in our family now from this lucrative business!

The kids love it when Adam comes home to show them how much money he pulled out of the machine, and it is a really good idea to help them learn how a business works! I just love my business minded husband!