Christmas pictures

The Sunday before Christmas we got all dressed up in our fancy Christmas outfits for church. It was very anticlimactic because of the whole provident living thing. I decided since they only wore their outfits once last year, we would wear them again this year. It will be fun to line the pictures up together and see how they have changed but since this is new for me, this will be the first time they will be on this computer.

Nathan--age 11--needs a haircut badly

Justin--age 13--always needs a haircut, is trying to figure out the "cool" way to smile.

Susanna Belle-age 8 sweet as ever (most of the time)

Clara Jane-age 5 still trying to grow out that darn hair. Her 2 year old sister passed her up long ago. Looks darling when curled and is still a firecracker.

AND then there is Eliza and her evolution of the smile. As a baby I could never get a very good picture of her, not so photogenic. Now that she is getting older, we are trying to teach her to smile for the camera and she is having a hard time figuring it out. These are all taken with various forms of prompting.

AND finally this.
But this is the one that we seem to get a lot of. The posessed smile look. It is very intense to smile on command.

We still think they are cute no matter what they do (except cry)

Merry Christmas to all!