For my mother-in-law

Here ya go. I will email it to you guys tonight with some of the boys.

We did this in, like, 5 minutes and the boys really do not like having a camera pointed at them (gee, I wonder why!) so not everyone is smiling but it’s the whole family. I have to say thanks to my brother, Jerry, for the second flash and the ST-E2 transmitter. One speedlite simply would not have cut it for a picture like this. Thanks, also, to Canon for putting a flashing light on the camera during the self-timer mode. Without it, we’d have three-fifths of the family *not* looking at the camera.

I’ve been extraordinarily busy taking other peoples’ pictures for practice so I’m not blogging here as often as I should be but I’ll include a picture of James and one of Korben below. The pictures I’ve taken recently of Lowell have underwear involved so I won’t be putting those on the blog for everyone to see.

In addition to all the practice sessions, I’ve also had three sick kiddos for the better part of two weeks now. They’re feeling better so, of course, it is my turn to take one for the team.

David’s sectionals have started up again so we don’t see him for twelve hours of each day. We were talking about how much he works… we have friends who don’t get home until late and it seems like they may work longer hours but when we realized that most of them don’t leave the house until later in the day, it really isn’t as bad as it seems. David is gone by 6:30 and gets home around 6:15 and that makes for a very long day for him. I still haven’t adjusted to the later getting-home time and having dinner ready (ick, I can’t cook!), happy children, a clean house, and peaceful, well adjusted wife… well, that’s fiction I tell you.

I almost didn’t include the above because I don’t want any advice. I just needed to get that out somehow. Whew. I feel better. And I’m going to step away from the computer now and go clean. Because it’s Saturday and I don’t have any other time in the week to clean.

Oh yeah. Those pics: