Family Pics. . .need I say more?!

I once got all my kids (back when I just had three) to Kiddie Kandids for pictures and by time we were called the kids were tired. . .I remember thinking, "this girl better be able to get a good picture because it was so hard getting here." When she couldn't easily, she just looked at me and calmly said, "maybe you should just come back tomorrow." I knew immediately that she didn't have kids. . .and I wanted to strangle her! It is nearly impossible to get all of the kids PLUS me AND Dave dressed somewhat similar, in clean clothes, with hair done, make-up on, faces/noses clean AND everyone happy at the same time. . .I decided the ONLY time that ever even ALMOST happens is on Sunday RIGHT before church! So, luckily I have a sister who could come over at that time and take a few pics for us last week. Then there's the big decision of WHERE to have the pic taken. This time we chose the center of our home. . .in front of the fireplace. Turned out you can see the pic of the temple in the back too--very cool! :) Anyway, YAY, we got a pretty good one, plus one of Dave and his boys and me with my girls. . .why do we do that? I don't know, I guess just because we can:

My sister Chrissy had the funniest post a couple years ago where she posted all the "out-takes" it took before getting a good picture. It made me laugh so hard, so I figured I'd copy her if I ever could. . .too bad I didn't remember until now because I've already gone through and deleted all the "bad" ones. But, believe me, we had Kaleb with his WHOLE fist in his mouth, Mark pouting with a frown because we made him take off his glasses (glare), Darci with a forced fake smile because we were yelling at her to "look at the CAMERA and SMILE", Kyra scrunching her face and looking away because Kaleb had her hair in his fist (and, yes, the one that was all the way in his mouth), and of course, me sweating to death because I've been running around trying to have everyone ready at the same time. Dave got to just get himself dressed, stand in for a few pics, and being the "guy" that he is, got to announce after about 10 snaps "we better have a good one, because this is the last one I'm standing here for!" :)