Versaw photo shoot

My side of the family was all together for Christmas this year!  It was the first time in over 18 months.  Too long definitely, but understandable considering that 3 of the 4 of us are married and/or have families that we have to work around.  I have 3 wonderful sisters and I miss them like crazy, I didn't realize how much I missed being all together as a family until we were all together again at Christmas.  I surely surely hope we don't have to wait another 18 months till we are all together again. 

Anyway, while we were all together, we had a family photo shoot, thanks to my dad's camera and a nifty tripod that yours truly got him for Father's Day!  I think the pictures turned out pretty good considering there was no one behind the camera making funny faces or weird noises or getting everyone to say "daddy has stinky feet".  Don't judge, that's what works for our kids, cracks them up into the best smile every time!!

I'm digressing quickly, so instead of go on and on about our family's hygiene habits, I will just show some pictures.  Sound good?  I thought so!

The whole family

Next Christmas there will be a new 5-month-old grandkid too (courtesy of my sister and her hubby)!

The cousins

For the following pictures, we actually did have some little kids behind the camera trying to do bunny ears on the picture-taker and trying to get the subjects to smile.  It was actually very funny as the kids didn't really know how to do it and they just ended up tickling the top of the person's head.  It was funnier in person than it is on the blog, just trust me.

All of us sisters

My parents