Kristi looking radiant and beautiful, with new sisters Rhianne and Elise.
Travis looking happier than EVER!
Barbie is giving it a try, but she's
plastic and her dress is made out of paper -
and she doesn't hold a candle to Kristi.
It all began when Craig and I were trying to take a nap after our twenty-two hour drive from Missouri to Utah, so we could make it home in time for Travis and Kristie's wedding luncheon. Emma andCaroline were bored and complaining that our hand-me-down selection of tox-box barbie and brats dolls didn't have any clothes.
So in a half-dazed stupor I suggested that they use rubber bands and paper towels and make some.
One week and a couple of rolls of paper towels, scotch tape, and boxes of kleenexes later, Barbie, Army "Ken" (our boy doll that speaks a foreign language) and the collection of undressed and footless brats dolls had been dressed and re-dressed in an impressive and very inventive array of wedding attire, which Emma cleverly documented in these photos.
Aren't girls (and Barbie) swell?
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Me, Anna, Emma, Elise, Rachel, Craig and Caroline, a couple of hours after our 22 hour, straight-through from Columbia, Missouri, drive.
Me with Travis, Ashlee, Aubrey and Brandi - missing Preston and wishing he was here with us, and not still in Afghanistan - not sure why Rhianne didn't make it in this picture at least?
Ever since Craig and I got married it has been my dream to be one big happy family. Well, it's taken some time and work and we're still not one-hundred percent there but things are getting better all the time. This is our first "all-of-us" family picture - minus Emma and Britney who ran off and didn't make it in the photo, and Preston, Clayton, Chandler, Cole and Morgan, who weren't there (plus Eric and Mary, who were :). Getting everyone together in one place at the same time is just about impossible - but I'm happy to have this many of us together, at least :)
Five weeks later, Rhianne and Hayden are back from Savannah for a month, so we went to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point. Hayden liked feeding the goats and sheep but this big guy was a little intimidating.
Hands down, Hayden's liked the pony ride the best. He got to ride twice and didn't want to get off the horse either time when the ride was done.
