Family Pictures

Family pictures...some favorites and some fun ones.

"The Juniper Salute"  Since Becky called it that earlier this year, we have to have a Juniper Salute picture where ever we go.

A "twin" moment

Nate with some added touches from the photographer.  Anyone else think it looks like he wants to jump?

You can't get a bad picture of Megan.

Another Juniper Salute...He convinced the photographer to capture him in a lot of dramatic poses.

So sweet...  This girl can turn it on and off.  We have both pouting and smiling pictures from her.

Happy Halloween!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Jeran's Reflections Entry

Changing of Seasons


The world is still and the air is crisp,
Save it be a few leaves gently gliding from their home high in the treetops.

The few birds remaining chirp restlessly
Waiting for their turn to fly south for the winter.

A slow, fragile wind starts,
Carefully sweeping the bright, fragrant leaves up into the cloudless sky.

The snow-capped mountains glisten in the blazing sun.
Gradually, the temperature grows colder, and the light of day becomes shorter.

Summer has ended, and winter begins.

Megan's Reflections Entry

The Thankful Turkey!

“Hey kids gather round!” said Suzie McTound,
“Haven’t you heard? The turkey’s in town!”

“Who’s the turkey?” asked Leslie Jo Faye.

“Oh, Silly Bo Billy it’s The Thankful Turkey!” laughed Tommy S. Slate.
Suzie McTound finished for him.
“Every November she knocks on your door,
For every night she can’t wait for delight in the eyes of the children and friends.”

Leslie Jo Faye asked, “What does she say?”

The reply: “Beauty is a thankful note;
Share this love around and when we meet again it is beauty you have found.”

Reflections

Reflections is an art contest sponsored by the PTA.  I love the Reflectons contest (minus the last minute push to get the entries in).  Jeran wrote an amazing poem.  Megan wasn't going to enter because she was sick and didn't feel like submitting her photography, but at the last minute, couldn't be left out and wrote a silly but sweet poem about being thankful (both to be posted later).  Joie entered in the area of photography.  If you've followed this blog for very long, you know that the last time we were at her house she found 4 sunflowers to put in the window as a way of leaving her family in the house as we left.  She ended up taking some pictures that actually turned out great and she entered one of them for Reflections.  Following is the picture, and her artist's statement submitted with the photo.  The title is "Beauty is a Memory."

By Joie:  In 2007 my family died in a car accident.  We had to sell the house because it was vacant.  We had to go and say good-bye to the house.  I was outside looking around and I found four flowers.  I said that one was a daddy flower; one was a mommy flower; one was a kid flower and one was a baby flower.  I put the flowers in the window in memory of my family.  I was the kid flower.  Walking away I thought it looked pretty.  I took a picture.  I wanted more pictures to remember this day so I went inside and lined up the flowers and took more pictures.