Tuesday, January 27, 2009

That's why I love college - new experiences.

Alright. This is what I'm used to:
Everyone calls everyone for a couple weeks to make sure everyone knows the specifics of FAMILY PICTURE DAY. Once we're all there, it's keeping the kids clean, out of the dirt, fed, and happy, re-arranging everyone fifty times, making sure the picture of the current missionary can be seen, taking a million pictures in hopes that at least one will have maybe half of the twenty babies looking in any direction the camera can catch (it's a bonus if they're smiling), everyone getting hot and sweaty and short tempered and annoyed, and knowing that by next month this picture will be outdated by three babies and two in-laws. I guess that's just what being a Mackey is (and so cool too).

So, this is our latest officially official family picture (I believe I had just graduated from High School...so about 3.5 years ago) (and this is a picture of a picture that my brother posted on FB so it's not best quality -- maybe a good thing for some of us).

With grand kids and marriages, I counted out nine more additions since this picture (family: correct me if I'm wrong).

So this past Saturday I had family pictures with the outlaws -- a first for me -- and it was unlike anything I had ever experienced. Pretty much we sat down wherever felt good, smiled, didn't blink when the camera flashed, and were done. Have I found a deal or what? So now I'll post a couple for you.

These are the Stocks (and all in these pictures until the granddaughters get married will be Stocks. Darn them boys stealing their wives' perfectly good last name) --








And this isn't Mike or me, actually his older brother and niece, but it's my favorite of the one's we've seen :-).


4 comments:

Jake said...

Wait a minute...so you can actually enjoy taking family pictures? Consider yourself lucky. I have a small in-law family and its still a drag to take pics.

Unknown said...

I love these pictures!

I can't believe how red your hair looks...I think I remember it being more blonde. Geez maybe I have not seen your for a while...oh good thing we are hanging out soon then!

Fiery Jack said...

you didn't have this new experience because of college. The title should read "This is why i love being married - new experiences."

shirley elizabeth said...

It's a quote. And it happened while in college. End of story.