Every year my husband and I try to take our family portraits sometime between Thanksgiving and the first week of December. This year, I was uncomfortably large. We were anticipating the birth of our 5th child in December- so we decided to wait until he arrived. Well, he held out longer than I had expected, arriving on December 22. In ten years, I hadn’t missed sending out Christmas cards. This year, I did. But we did get cards sent out- they just said ‘Happy New Year’ instead 🙂

I was pretty happy with our family portrait. Sure, Gideon is crying- but he does that.

The ‘big kids’ were super cooperative, and very helpful. Oh, and mega cute!

(ZION)

(EDEN)

(NOAH)

(JOSIAH)

(GIDEON)

That’s our family. They bring me outrageous amounts of joy 🙂