You can kiss your family good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world, but a world lives in you.
~ Frederick Buechner

Allyssa Brynn

Kelsey Leigh

Andrew Lee

Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas Pictures

So...we're 10 days from Christmas and I am finally getting a chance to post the annual Jackson Family Christmas pictures and our visit with Santa. The family pictures are starting to go much smoother now with a 3 year old and a 5 year old. Just in time to add one more to the mix. Hopefully he'll like the camera like Ally did as a baby. And our visit with Santa this year was filled with excitement as always. Ally could hardly wait to get to see him and she had her entire spiel ready to go. "Thanks for always bringing me presents. I've been a good girl this year. Can I have a pink camera this year?" Kelsey, on the other hand, was all talk and no action. She was super excited to see Santa sitting in his chair. She had her own spiel ready as well..."Can I please have a blue elephant?" But, when it was go time...we stood frozen at Santa's chair and look terrified. So...daddy put her on Santa's lap, we got this "fabulous" picture of the both of them and then, with a little coaxing, Kelsey actually answered Santa's question when he asked her what she wanted for Christmas. In the faintest voice possible...which I never knew existed because we surely don't have that voice here at home...she asked him for a blue elephant. And all was right with the world. Maybe next year we'll get a smile???

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Tag...you're it!!

Ok...so I think I followed the rules of this game. The 4th picture in my fourth folder comes from my Calendar Pictures folder. Here was the calendar cover for 2007. Kelsey was so little. Hard to believe we'll have another one in our family picture soon. And since Lisa took all the people from my blog...I guess this little game will end with me!!