2008.

Here are a FEW of my favorite pics from 2008... Thanks, everyone!
See ya next year!!

Dance, baby, dance!

If this isn't your first time on this Bloggity-Blog, you may have noticed I've added some songs. My boys noticed too. One of our favorite things is DANCING...

we are not very good, but we sure love it anyway.

We were having so much fun, I decided to try to snap a few pics by using the timer on my camera. Obviously, this is a difficult task for me... cut-off heads and arms and legs... I don't even care. I love them because I'll always remember how much fun we were having when I took these.

Marshal and Lindsey...

Last week my brother and his wife came into town from Chicago.

I was so flattered when they asked me to take some pictures of them!

I can't decide if they look more like movie stars or FBI agents.

Either way, they're totally HOT!

Thanks so much, you guys! I hope you like 'em.

Our family portraits, by yours truly...

We took some family pictures yesterday. This was my first time using the camera's timer... pretty exciting. This is my new favorite place for pictures... the big orange wall.

Morning shadows were a headache, but I actually LIKE them in this one...


I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one...

Porter was actually licking that candy cane... yummmmm.

Setting the timer and running on this bridge was actually really scary... BUT WORTH IT!




If I look out of breath in any of these... it's cuz I AM!


We had so much fun doing this... I hope I can talk my 3 boys into doing it again soon.

Mr. J, Ms. G and family...

J and G's family... aren't they cute? They are so much fun...

I was laughing a good 89% of the time.

I love how non-posed these pictures are... their crazy, fun personalities show through. You can tell they enjoy being together.

Thanks for the laughs and the fun!

I'm embarassed!

I totally forgot about these. A couple weeks ago, I was just playing around with my camera and took about 20 pictures of my neighbors and their cousins from out of town.

They were so cute to let me.

I'm sorry I choked, Sarah! But I'm not sorry your kids are so stinkin' cute!

Family B.

Hello, Family B. I had so much fun with you guys the other day! And even though the elk were teaching us the facts of life, you still look great!

(Maybe that's why your smiles were so big and no one blinked.) Most of their pics were in color... I'm just in a Brown/White mood today.

Macro lense...

LOVE THAT LENSE!!

Soooooo cute...

I hope you like your pictures, guys. I can't wait to show you the rest!

Tagged...

I've been tagged... thanks, Michelle. 6 random, unspectacular quirks about Allison.
Hmmmmm......

1. I hate getting into my bed with rough feet. I can't stand the snagging! YUCK! Just writing about it gives me the hee-bees. So every night I slather lotion (usually MIRACLE FOOT REPAIR) all over my tired dogs.

2. I have a FLAT head. Not the normal flat... it's EXTREMLY flat. Therefore, I hate it when people touch the top of my head.

3. I'm double jointed. Not sure exactly what that means, but I was recently told that I look VERY double jointed. (VERY? So there are different degrees of double-jointed-ness?) Thanks, I think. If anyone knows what double jointed means... (besides 'having double the joints than my normal fellow humans'... I figured that much out!)... please let me know.

4. Every year at Halloween time I have a nightmare that the Trick-or-Treaters start ringing my doorbell and I haven't bought any candy for them. I wake in a cold sweat.

5. When I encounter blood, see something frightening (snakes!), talk about stitches, hear about gruesome accidents, or ANYTHING like unto these... I get a pain in my crotch. AM I ALONE?... I don't know, but I seem to be the only person willing to talk about it. If you ever show me your re-attached finger or your deep knife wound, you can bet that I'll hunch over due to crotch pain.

6. I can touch my tongue to my nose... and beyond.

The J. Family...

So, I did this photo shoot last week and I got home and MY FLY WAS DOWN!!! Awesome, Allison! No wonder this family was full of smiles... their photographer was a dork! The most difficult part of these particular pictures were the trees and all the weird shadows they made. I think we managed to get a few good ones, though.

These guys don't take a bad photo! Thanks so much, sweet family... it was fun.
I can't wait to go Geo-Cashing now!!