three days until Christmas O.o

the house is full of secrets 

older brothers teasing you about gifts

little sisters begging to show you the gift they got for you

                         

hyper little brothers eating too much candy

a mother who can't stop laughing at your begging

a father who wants to give the biggest Christmas surprise away early

                                                       
                                                 dogs who have no idea what's going on
                                        a cat who will soon be waiting on the roof for
                                  Santa if she doesn't quit waking everyone up at night.
                                                        a leetle turtle who just eats and sleeps
                                  a snake, who pretty much does the same thing as the leetle turtle

                               
                                      bedrooms doors are being slammed in peoples faces
                                         half a million random trips to Wal Mart
                                    because somebody forgots a whole bunch of stuff.

And now.. I have to go find a gift, I hid it so well, I can't find it.

wooooow. 

I do not think Aaron and Elijah are capable of being serious in a photo

                                                     
                                                         he's "all cited for Christmas'

                                                           
                             Rachel : "mawahaha. *starts laughing like crazy* lets make weird faces."

 
                                          he's all "super duper cited for Christmas"
       

                                                      I have the best siblings ever.

I love shooting during golden hour, but nobody ever wants to pose for me or do hair flips. Rachel wanted to yesterday, so I took a few pictures of her, but they ended up turning into"oh, lets make faces and stomp on ant hills and have fire ants crawl up our feet" pictures. [by the way, I'm in the middle of redesigning my blog, so if things look weird...]

:P accidental shot

            aha. ignore my expression. I was trying to mimic Jack Sparrow and failed miserably.

A picture loaded post [Part 6]

this was Tuesday. we went to mooville. in other words, we went and got ice cream. ice cream that had caffeine in it. caffeine. I like that word. a lot.

Rachel cracked me up when she sat on the barrel and posed like this.

half of my ice cream. I had eaten half of it before I decided to take a pictures.

the flavor is Java Chip. caffeine. again. I like that word.

Rachel held my ice cream while I took this picture. its harder than I thought, taking a picture and holding an ice cream cone. especially since it wasn't on auto focus. my bad.

Elijah made a bigger mess than Micah!

Grandma and Aaron

Dad was teasing me and said the cow's name was Annabelle.

"Annabelle"

Okay. this pig freaked me out. you'd walk near his pen, and he'd [she?] squeal and run towards you. and follow you around the pen. Micah had a weird fascination with the pig. I don't like pigs

O.o his teeth...

ahaha. you'll never guess who this is.

Justin Bieber!

One more post after this =)

-Anna

A picture loaded post [Part 5]

Tuesday we went to my dad's uncle's house. he has an amazing garden. pears, apples, peaches, blackberries, raspberries.. [just to name a few] he sent us home with a whole bucket full of blackberries and a huge basket of peaches. [I don't like peaches]

Joshua picking peaches

picking blackberries. [mom took all these pictures. she wanted me in the pictures.

though I *cough cough* have picked pictures without me in them]

Aaron, Elijah and Rachel picking blackberries

he was like "eat eat eat eat eat" the whole entire time.

Abi and her two favorite blackberries...

Dad and Micah

Uncle Ron with his grapes. [Concord Grapes] he makes the best grape juice ever. and those grapes are... too good.

this picture cracks me up. Micah walked around saying

"eat" the whole entire time we were there!

Grandma and Micah

Mom and Micah

eat!

he said "mine" whenever you asked him for a bite

haha. I never knew he could eat an apple like that

Aaron. He ate three apples!

our big basket of peaches. ew-yum.

and.... cookies, rootbeer and this rhubarb stuff. [yes, its pink. yes, its got rhubarb in it. but its like my favorite dessert ever. I had way too much of that...]

Just one or two more posts. I promise!

-Anna

A picture loaded post [Part 1]

I don't think many people knew I was going to Michigan Labor Day weekend. in fact, I didn't even know I was going to Michigan until the day we left. so here are the pictures from the trip. I'm splitting them up into a few posts, because there's a lot. a. lot. let see.. there was Abi who sneezed every other second. we say she's reloading whenever she sniffs. I'm serious. that kid has sneezed more times in a day than I have in my entire life. its crazy. oh, the reason Micah has no clothes on... car sickness. Rachel and I wrote a really stupid story on my itouch. maybe I'll be brave enough to post it someday. its.... bad.

yes. it was pretty crowded

Aaron insisted on doing the 'peace' sign in almost every picture. crazy kid.

Rachel's expression here. priceless. cracks me up every time.

this was the last picture I took in the car. Joshua was filming me.

Rachel's hiding from me. we had to share a bed. *die*

Aaron was the only one who got his own bed. sort of. [at the hotel]

the bridge that crosses the Mississippi

The Mississippi river. I'm quite pleased with this one. considering it was taken from the car!

this one didn't turn out bad either.

by the way. most of these pictures are pretty horrible. it wasn't my goal this weekend to take great and wonderful pictures. does that make sense?...

I'm scheduling the next post for tomorrow =)

-Anna

oh and I now have 27 followers! When I get to 30, I'll have a giveaway/contest.

[Rachel]

Sorry this is just a quick post with a few pictures of Rachel, I haven't had much computer time its been so hot, we shut our computers down during the day.

-Anna