Last weekend my whole family gathered together at my parents' house for my grandmother's birthday - number 85! It was quite festive and quite a ruckus. We're a rowdy bunch, and the addition of two babies in the past year has definitely made it somewhat more so. Over the course of the evening there were many, many photo ops, as it has become pretty uncommon for all of us to be gathered in the same place at the same time. In attendance were: Mom and Dad, Granny and Grandpa (my mom's parents), Grandmother (my dad's mom, and the birthday girl), Angelia (my older sister), Shelby (my 7 year old niece), Mark and Ashley (my younger sister and her husband), Ashley Marie (Leah's cousin, who is a whole 2 months and 2 days older than her), Scott, Leah, and myself. The only one missing was Larry (Angelia's husband and Shelby's dad), who had to work. There were 4 generations represented!
Here we have Angelia, Shelby, Ashley, Ashley Marie, Leah, and me. All three girls with our three girls. (My family is heavily weighted on the feminine side!)
This was an attempt at a picture of the four generations. We added Mom, Granny, and Grandpa. We almost got everyone looking normal.
Not quite as good as the last one......
Uh-oh.......things are starting to unravel a little............
Oh, no.....things are getting worse..... Leah has her toes in Grandpa's ear, for one thing......I think it's time to call it quits. Let's stop while we're ahead.
Now it's time for Grandmother with the grand- and great-granddaughters. 
Just the great-grands....... Uh-oh.....Ashley Marie found something she likes. Over here, Shelby.... Oh, my.
All right. That's enough. We've done enough damage. Time to go.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Generations of Chaos
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Great pictures! I love Ashley Marie's eyes! Or is it Alicia Marie? Wait... that's Nina's niece's name! ha ha!
Fun day and special photos. They will be treasured I'm sure!
*L* This is SO my family as far as the millions of staged family pictures.
My mom is a major picture taker and doesn't like candid shots which are my favorite. We must all stand there in a line, squeeze in and someone always has to stand in front of her as she turns sideways to look as thin as she can. She cracks me up.
She's a picture taking maestro that orchestrates everyone, making sure we follow along, then dad gets aggravated after the 3rd "Just one more, just in case!" *L* Oh man...and the reason? She's thinking that she should take the pictures now before someone dies (because you never know)and then we'll have them to look at. I'm not kidding either. We all laugh but it's true! She says "Well, you never know!" *L*
I'm sure you guys didn't have that in mind when you got all those fabulous pics though and they were fabulous. You're such a cute mama and Leah is stunningly gorgeous! Don't let her out of your sight for a second :P
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