Personality

I have an awesome new neighbor. We love the whole family! Four kids, 2 cats, a dog...crazy house just like ours. We borrow things from each other all the time, feel comfortable sending our kids over to each others houses, and have great chats. On top of all that she's a professional photographer and offered to take our family Christmas photo. However, with both our busy schedules and the rain, we've been unable to connect. Finally on Sunday the planets aligned and it stopped raining for an hour so we quickly gathered everyone up after church and tried to take some pics. Now, this isn't the one I used for my Christmas card - but I have to say it is my FAVORITE picture she took because it captured everyone's personality in my family perfectly!
It probably isn't noticeable to the common eye but I can see everyone's true self just spilling out from the picture. Let me interpret for you.

Emma - Crazy, vivacious, always laughing (when she's not crying), loves life, never stops until her head hits the pillow kind of girl.

Jacob - shy but sneaky. Loves to play practical jokes on people. Is kind of shy and quiet but thinks he is totally funny. Comes up with the funniest comments ever.

Ben - SOOO mischievous. Doesn't that look just scream "Yeah I'm a troublemaker but I'm so cute how can you resit?"

Dave - hates getting his photo taken and being made by his wife to sit in a photo shoot. See that little crooked smirk on his face - it's saying "how much longer do I have to sit through this torture"?.

Me - I can't believe we are all sitting here at the same time and nobody is whining, yelling, or hitting anyone else. Wearing the "boring-white-shirt-because-I-didn't-have-time-to-find- myself-something-cute-to-wear-with-the-getting-everybody-else-ready" outfit. Thinking - good thing this is right after church so I already had makeup on and my hair semi brushed.

I just laugh to myself when I see this picture. Here are some more for your viewing enjoyment: