Missing Keith

I have been meaning to post these pics for a while but just haven't gotten around to them yet. Plus I wanted to make sure Keith was allowed to look at my blog first so he could see them because they are kinda for him. :)

When Keith left for his mission, our kids (his nieces and nephews) were sad that he would be missing our family get-togethers. So Elisa (Chris's oldest sister) had a fun idea to make a life-size cutout of him so that he would "still be here." :) I photo-shopped a picture of his body, Chris printed a life-size portrait to scale of him and Elisa cut and modgepodged it onto a board. In some of the pictures, if you didn't know it was fake, you would think it was really him! The kids loved it and it helps the littler ones to remember him.

This is John missing Keith really bad....although I am happy to say that I think he is finally out of the mourning stage. :)

"Your coming with me."

"The only time in my life that I am stronger than you and that I can carry you."

GQ: John and Anne Marie

Grandma Annie's 60th Birthday party. All the grandkids wanted to see her open her presents.

Due to Grandma Annie's 60th birthday party, all the grand kids were together for the first time in a long time. So, we decided to try and get all the grand kids together for pictures with Grandma and Grandpa. That is 21 kids all under the age of 11. Hello! What were we thinking. Like that is going to work. But it is kind of fun to look at these pictures and remember how crazy it is. I love that my kids have so many cousins (on both sides of the family) to play with.

Funny faces, hugging, crying, not paying attention...always someone doing something...this is just with the kids...imagine trying to get 17 more adults into the picture for the whole family. INSANE!

This is the best one I got of everyone and it is still not good. Alaina, the oldest grandchild, looks great in all of them. I am sure Anna got some better ones. :)