Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Family Time.

One of the things we treasured most this Christmas was the time we got to spend together as a family!! What a joy to be together- Papa & Nana, all twelve children, both brother-in-laws, the three grandboys!! Great-Grandma got to be with us several times too!

Rebecca and Seth.

The three boys loved sledding with Uncle Moses!!

Rebecca and Justice.

The three grandboys with Great-Grandma!!

Uncle Sethy and Justice!

The Shepards!

Aunt Elizabeth and Marcus!!

The seven sisters!!

What can you say?? We like to make people laugh!
Whenever Silas, Justice and Paul are all together, we make sure to get aa picture of them together. It certainly was a funny scence- 4 cameras flashing crazily, 8 people trying to get the boys to smile simultaneously and the three boys who giggled, crawled away and took their shoes off.

All ready for a picture- except Paul- quite the little comedian!! :)

Paul, Uncle Silas and Justice!! What special little guys!!

Rebecca (chuckles)!!

"You mean those raspberry chews are for me!!!!!"

"I love my Aunt Esther."

Daddy and Elizabeth

Our adorable nephew Marcus gives me a grin!!!

Mr. and Mrs. Anson-- awww!!!!

Sisters!!

Precious Smiles.

Noah and Esther!

Charity and Phoebe.

Uncle Seth and Marcus!!

Esther and Charity!

Uncle Micah and Justice!

Moses, Seth and Esther!!

Look- they're all sucking their thumbs!!! (It was Papa's idea!)
Papa and Nana with their three Grandsons!!
Family-- what a precious gift from God!!

14 comments:

Jacob said...

I was kinda surprised to see Seth with his arm around a girl, but quickly deduced that Rebecca is one of your older sisters, whom I have not met. :D

Thanks for sharing these photos. May the Lord bless you this year.

Peace! --Jacob

--aleks k. said...

Love the pictures Lizzy!!!

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Anonymous said...

I LOVE all the pictures!! Not sure which is my favorite, but I do like the one with the Papa,Nana, and grandchildren sucking their thumbs, and the one of Elizabeth & Mr. Ulmer.

I love the pictures of all the sisters in their shirts! Where did you get them?

Miss you, guys!
Aliisa

The Ansons said...

What a good post Elizabeth! You got some good pictures. I am sorting through all mine tonight! :)
LA

Under Southern Skies said...

It looks like you have a very sweet family, I love the pictures of the sisters. :)

Anonymous said...

Love them, love them! Thank you for posting all these precious photos, Elizabeth!
Love and miss you!
((((hugs))))

Anonymous said...

Sweet pictures! I love the sister tees! *Sigh* - seeing these photos makes me realize how long it has been since we have seen you all - the little ones are growing up. It's been waaay tooo looong!!!! :-)
Love,
Diane/Mrs. L

ScribblinScribe said...

What fun pictures!

Of course Andrew would wait until we were long gone to grow that beard my dad's been after him to grow since forever...

:D Abigail Joy

Bontrager Family Singers said...

What a fun post!! Gotta love all those precious family times!
Beautiful pictures!
the Bontragers

Bontrager Family Singers said...

Oh, and I forgot to say~my favorite is the one of all you girls! Sisters are the best!

Anonymous said...

I just dropped by again to give a resounding "Awwwww!" to that cute Anson couple!

Kristi said...

Great pictures! Looks like you all had a wonderful time.

~Kristi

Anonymous said...

I love all of the pictures! It looks like everyone had a grand time together at Christmas!

Hey Esther, I have some questions for you. Could you please e-mail me some of your family's food menus and the recipes to those dishes? I could really use some new ideas as to what I can cook for our family! Here is our e-mail: bees11@alltel.net Thanks! ~Hannah B.