Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Family Pictures

If I were still into scrapbooking I would have had a heart attack by now. We haven't had a family photo in years. Unless you count this:
 That was three years ago. You can see Ben's legs behind mine.

My talented neighbor took some new pictures of us. Look at how beautiful Maggie is. She's really nice. There will never be anyone good enough to marry her. It's going to be sad and disappointing, for sure.

And here's adorable Ellen. She is nice too, but very demanding. She jumped off the stairs to impress her brother a few days before this picture was taken and landed on her face. She's airbrushed here because I don't tolerate imperfection.

And here is my handsome 13 year-old-son, Sam. How would it have been to be this good-looking in Jr. High? I'm sure I don't know. The rubber bands on his braces match our color scheme. OF COURSE. (Don't yours?)
And here's a shot of Ben with a real smile. I don't know why he's so camera shy--he's very photogenic. What is Ben smiling at? Probably a rare bird--for sure not Christian pretending to moon him. PRETENDING.

When I look at Ben he sometimes morphs into a grown man in my mind. I can picture him as an adult. This doesn't happen with any of my other kids.  I don't know why. The man I see when I look at Ben looks a lot like Daniel Craig.

And just so you'll know we are a LOT more high-brow than just pretend mooning around here, I'm going to share a little family joke with you. Once Sam was walking around with a big bowl of Top Ramen and he said, "Pah-don" with an English accent and then he sloshed his soup all over into the silverware drawer and down the front of the cabinet. So now we think it's really funny to bumble around and bump into things and say "Oh, pah-don me. . . Pah-don!" See, anything with an English accent is high-brow. You might think it's not that funny, but it is.

16 comments:

  1. Don't you just love insider family jokes. I found that Pah-don story hilarious!

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  2. We haven't had a family photo in years! I'm not anti-family photo, just anti-working that hard to make it happen.
    Your family is beautiful.

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  3. Handsome boys and beautiful girls, and itl about "pah-don."

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  4. Those "Pah-don" kind of jokes are what make families fun.

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  5. I love the picts of your kids. You have a really handsome family. I want to know if you got mad about the spilling of the ramen or if you just immediately started laughing. I am not good at seeing the joke in things until after the fact.

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  6. Our version of pahdon is bumping into each other on purpose and saying Pardon me, excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, oh sorry, AM I IN YOUR WAY?

    Good looking kids!

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  7. thats.! great im very imress with these pics, its show a unique idea, boys nd girls in pics are loking smart, keep it up

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  8. cute pictures. my favorite though is your older family picture. I looked at it and thought "I swear she had 4 kids..." silly me, I forgot to look behind you...

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  9. I just can't figure out to say "pah-don" without sounding French.

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  10. Awh, they look great!

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  11. Pardon me, but your family is beautiful.

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  12. Maybe your kids and my grandkids can run into each other at BYU sometime in the future - and figure out their connection.

    It could happen!

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  13. And This??? This is why I longingly dream of being your next door neighbor....I would CONSTANTLY be cracking up and probably laughing so hard I'd be wetting myself..."OH! Pah-Don me, I do seem to have made a wee puddle on your porch!"

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  15. Such beautiful kids. I like how Ellen is smiling, but it also looks like a grimace, like she just might bite you is you mouth off. I wish Mags was in Activity Days with Addie. I wish you were in anything with me (but then again, we woudl prolly get kicked out for incessant laughing and/or sarcasm.)

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