Family pictures

The day before we went to Utah for Thanksgiving, we finally got new family pictures taken. We went to a place by us that's called Portrait Innovations. It's a chain kind of like Kiddie Kandids, except the photographer holds the camera and they take a lot more pictures. Since our last family group picture was taken when Chris was about a year old, we really, really needed a new one. People were starting to think we were ashamed to have Daniel and Abby in our family.

Anyway, if you're anything like us, it's not easy to get a good family picture with 5 kids, especially as young as they are. Some of the pictures were quite humorous. And luckily for us, we have a nice cd of all the pictures they took so we can have them to remember.

Here are some of the pictures that were taken. I'm not going to label them. Some I put on just because they cracked me up. If you have any questions about any of them, just ask. :)

Alex

As most of you probably already know, last month Alex was chosen to be the student of the week for his class. He was pretty excited about it. He got a certificate with a pencil and some candy and I was invited to go eat lunch with him in the school cafeteria. We were all proud of him and excited for him too.

Anyway, his school has 10 virtues that they emphasize, like honesty, caring, discipline, perserverance, etc. When each student shows characteristics in themselves in each of the 10 virtues, the school gives them a t-shirt. Last week Alex told me he only had one more virtue to do, then he got a shirt. On Saturday as I was driving him to his soccer game, he told me that he had completed them all and would be getting his shirt the next time he was at school. So today when he got home, he opened up his backpack first thing and pulled out his new t-shirt to show me. And it didn't take long before he decided he wanted to wear it too, so he now has it on.

So good job Alex!