Family Pictures and a birthday

What do you get with one Nikon camera, one tripod, one camera remote, and 16 people….almost total silliness (even from the adults). 

Check out the kissy faces, and the toy gun my brother was supposed to be holding for safe keeping….and do you love Spencer letting us know we’re only going to take ONE more picture.

Here’s a few of the grandkids…I have only had time to play with the group picture and after swapping out three heads and playing with the colors… I was quite impressed with the results….I’m not quite sure why the white shirts had such a blue haze to them in the pictures above. After pictures we celebrated Karina’s birthday.  Jessie helped me make the butterflies for her cupcakes.  We had a lot of fun together. I love watching little kids open presents – they are always so enthusiastic and so happy with what they get.

Karina’s “cheese” face. 

With the party over, my brother Mark had to get back to Portland, and while some were at the airport with him I took a tons of pictures of Karina these were the best ones.  At the beginning all she wanted to do was play with a sprinkler, we finally distracted her. 

I love this picture.  My sister suggested to her to put her hand in her pocket and she walked around like that for a long time.  It was funny.  These are a few of the Photoshop Actions from Pioneer Women’s blog.  LOVE THEM!The next morning we all went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House.  Can you tell Karina loves hairthings?That night Conrad got to ride home with us from SLC where everyone was staying at my Grandparents while his mom packed up their stuff to come stay at our place for a few days.  We stopped at Thanksgiving Point to see the farm animals and break up the drive. My kids were in horsey heaven when they saw the two baby ponies! (The second picture is Conrad, not Mark, in case anyone was confused.)

The goats even got a taste of Mark and Spencer.

Spencer climbed up this fence so he could be as tall as the horse.