Category: Our Family

So Kyle picked up our disk of pictures from our session at JC Penny’s, yesterday. I popped the disk in my computer this morning and started saving them to my computer. They actually changed how they do the cds. It used to be that you pop the disk in and view the files then just select them all and copy all of them onto your computer. Boom, then you’re done. This time I pop the disk in and it opens up a program where I can only view one photo at a time. I can select whether I want to view it in color, black & white or sephia, but in order to save the photos I had to do it one photo at a time. And since I wanted to save them in color, black & white AND sephia, just so that I have them I had to save the picture in color, then select black & white, and save it then select sephia then save it. Talk about completely inconvenient. Anyways I’ve got them all saved to my computer now, and I’ve made an album in the photo gallery for all of the pictures, so they are all up for everyone to see.

Something funny that I noticed after I had them all saved to my computer (well actually it’s not really funny, but rather disappointing) the picture size is smaller than what my camera makes. So those huge fancy cameras that they use there in the studio have lousy resolution! Ok to be fair the resolution isn’t BAD (about 7MP) it’s just that you’d expect “professional” cameras like theirs to have better resolution than the camera that we spent maybe $120 for (which is 7.2MP)! It just makes me feel that instead of spending $150 for Penny’s to make me a cd (after spending an hour and a half or so trying to get pictures) maybe I should just take that money and buy a better camera for myself! The only issues I see with this though are that, I would still need someone else to take pictures of my whole family, since if I’m taking the pictures that means I’m obviously not in them. And I like that a studio has different backdrops to take pictures with. Oh well. I sense that there will be a change in our choice of photographers in the near future. Since the quality and the service of this visit just were not worth the money put into it. 🙁

After going to Laurel’s 40th birthday party tonight we decided to finish the night up by going to see the lights on Temple Square. We left pretty late though, and it was really cold, (and Tiffany wasn’t feeling so well) so everyone decided it would just be best to drive by and see what we could.

We drove around the temple block twice. There were people EVERYWHERE. But I guess we should have expected that since this is the first weekend the lights are on.

Most of the Christmas lights are inside the temple wall, but what we did get to see were really pretty. 🙂 After seeing the lights we took the kids to Denny’s for dinner. Kyle and I haven’t eaten at Denny’s since we only had one or two kids, so it was a new experience for them and they really enjoyed it.

Jenny brought up some ornament cookies for all the kids to decorate while they were visiting. I think of the 7 kids 2 took decorating their own ornament cookie seriously. Chloe wasn’t really interested, and she had missed her nap so she was really grumpy, so Tom decorated her cookie.

Jeremy did, I think the best job of decorating his cookie:

I think Ethan’s was next best:

Tommy’s looked pretty good for awhile:

Then he started EATING IT!

Later he found the tube of green frosting and just COVERED it which made it look like it was covered in goo. Then he continued to eat it.

Does this look like the face of a little girl who is taking the task of decorating her cookie seriously?

I think not. In that picture her cookie looks alright, but uh later on she decided to flip it over. Then we found her under the table trying to put red frosting on the back side of the cookie. Doesn’t she look like she’s feeling guilty about something?

Tyra’s cookie looked pretty good at first too:

But she kept adding more and more frosting. It’s going to take awhile to fully dry…

And Annaleah’s cookie was as cute as she could make it. She ended up flipping it over, though I”m not sure if she flipped hers over first or if she saw Dinah flip her cookie and decided to follow?

Here’s the cookie Tom decorated for Chloe:

Today is Tommy’s birthday, and Monday is Jeremy’s birthday, and since our guests are planning on driving home tomorrow we decided to have a combined birthday party for the two boys today. 🙂

Tommy turned 6 today and so we sang to him first:

As soon as he blew out the candles Annaleah threw a huge FIT! I found it really funny actually. 😉

Then Jeremy is turning 5 on Monday so we sang to him next:

Tom & Jenny eventually gave in and let Annaleah blow out a candle:

Chloe decided to try to eat her cupcake with no hands:

Then after a short break we went on to opening presents.

Thank you Grandpa Tom and Grandma Kathy, for the book. Look at that big smile. 🙂

And thank you Auntie Jenny and Uncle Tom for the legos and games.