Sistery Goodness

We are having a fun day today. Leila started the day by reading Clifford to her furry friends. She has memorized a lot of it!

I try to get her to smile for pictures, but not the "cheese" smile that actually makes kids look worse than no smile because they have their heads back and eyes closed.

Stella is a bit easier to get to smile, but she blinks a lot, I had to delete about a third of her pictures due to blinking.

I love this one, the look on her face is so funny.

In an effort to get a good smile, I kept asking Leila questions that she will think are silly, such as "Is your name Pumpkin Muffin?"

However you need to watch out and not be too silly, or she will turn her head while she is laughing...there go another third of the pictures! :) But apparently her name is Jelly Bean because this one turned out the best.

Leila's Blanket

Let me introduce you to Leila's favorite thing - her blanket. And she loves to chew on it. Ew.

I realized the other day that we did not have many pictures of her with it - because she is only allowed to have it in bed. So I let her take it out into the family room so we could get some pictures of her with it. She also likes to put her finger through the tag on it, so much that the original tag unravelled and I had to sew on a ribbon to take its place.

Family Pictures

For mom and dad's 35th wedding anniversary we decided to take family pictures. We enlisted the help of Rich's sister Sarah - who did an awesome job - especially when you factor in how many kids we were working with.

Lin Rich & Norah

Nana & Papa

Ryan Kari Reid & Paige

Jer Abby Leila & Stella

The gang's all here

Today after Sunday dinner I decided to do some more family pictures:
Grandma & Grandpa with the girls

Great Sue & the girls