All the Grandkids...Our Best Effort

Penny Sparks (Bryan and Emily's), Tanner (my brother), and Ivan and Lincoln

One thing my mom really wanted over the vacation was to get a picture with all the grandkids in it. Of course we couldn't just do it the easy way, when they were all there on Christmas day, no one thought about it then. The day after Christmas was our last shot because my step brother Bryan just got a job in San Diego and he will be moving his family there shortly. Since it's "so far" for Tanya and Nelson to drive from Roy to come out two days in a row to my mom's (you can't see, but I'm rolling my eyes. They live maybe three miles from my mom's house if you take the scenic route. As opposed to Bryan and Emily and Aaron and I who drive from Provo every time we come to visit which is about 90 miles, but whatever, I'm not bitter.) even though it would have been way easier for them to come there for the picture, we all loaded up and went to their house in Roy. All the kids, (well, mine at least, because we woke Lincoln up early from a nap, and Ivan was ready to go down for one) were cranky. And then we when got there, Graham was eating so we couldn't take the picture right away. We decided to do some other shots instead. The one above of Tanner and Penny and Lincoln and Ivan is probably my favorite. It turned out really cute. All the kids love Tanner because he is go good with all of them, and always plays with them.

This picture is really cute, I was sad it came out blurry. Lincoln and Ivan got the cute jackets they are wearing for Christmas and I thought it would be cute to have a picture of them together. Oh well. We also did shots of the families.

Of course we couldn't get our boys to smile for the life of them. Even bribing Lincoln with M&Ms failed.

Graham finally finshed eating to we could try some cousin shots. Isn't he cute? He's a little over a month old.

Well we could not get the kids to hold still or smile all by themselves, so we threw Grandma and Papa in there, but this is the best we got on our camera. Maybe someone else got better. I hope so for my mom's sake. We even tried putting Grandma and Grandpa Sparks (Kerry's parents) in the mix, but I saw how that was going to go, so I took a video instaed. The video is pretty funny though. I just wanted to capture the moment of what it's like to get lots of little kids to cooperate for a picture.