"A Picture Aners"

I have to explain the title of this post. Every time Anders sees me on my laptop, he runs up to me and says, "A picture Aners!" He knows that everything on our blog involves him and he absolutely loves looking at it! That's partially why I wanted to make this post, also because I just had to post the pictures my sister-in-law Amy took of my little Anders a couple of months ago. As many of you can imagine (if you weren't there), it was very difficult to get him to smile and somehow, Amy captured the rare moment! She's amazing! We get so many compliments on our pictures at our house that she has taken and I think it's about to get even better! Amy is really developing her business and creates some pretty impressive work. We had a HUGE group and she was able to take group pictures, individual pictures, and immediate family pictures all in record-breaking time. She did an amazing job and I'm so glad we chose to use her! I'm also posting the picture of our large (in quantity) family. This picture means so much to us because there were many events that this picture represents to our family.

#1. My Aunt Amy and Uncle PJ's sealing. We went directly over to the temple after this photo shoot.

#2. The diagnosis of my aunt Michelle's very serious brain tumor. Amy was able to crop in a picture of John and Michelle's family picture so that their family is represented. John was in town hours before this picture was taken, but received an emergency call to return home. We are so lucky to have this special picture of our family to remind us of how important we are to each other.

#3. The other picture that was cropped into this picture is my little brother Kenny. He's currently serving an LDS mission in New York. We miss him so much and are so glad we could include him in potentially our last family picture we'll get.

#4. My cousin Britton's last family picture before he goes on his mission in January to Washington.

#5. The last picture of me before I was one ovary less! Everyone kept asking me how I was feeling that day and I had never felt better! I was also very medicated...can you tell?

I really can't thank Amy enough for being a part of this very special day for us. If anyone is interested in getting more information about her, you can e-mail her at amy@clipsandclicks.com. She also has a website at http://www.clipsandclicks.com/.