OOOOOOHHHHHH!

What do you do in the Autumn time when you just finished the primary program?

Give your daughter some tea?

Bake heart-shape cakes that are teeny-tiny ?

Take 200 photos of your friend’s family?

Is that what you do?

SO DO I!

Before going up to the stand on Sunday to join my little motley crew, I sat with the Sunbeams in the first two rows of the chapel. One of the Sunbeams, my daughter Millie, was starting to get stage fright. So, the bribing began.

In our best whisper church voices this more or less transpired –

Mom: Millie, I can’t hold you when we get up to the stand. You are going to have to be brave.

Millie: [Whimper, whimper].

Millie: If you can do this, when we get home I will give you my undivided attention and we can do whatever you like.

Millie: Can we make chocolate cake and have a tea party?

Mom: Yes, ONLY if you are brave, say your part and DO NOT cling to me.

Millie: [ Whimper, whimper]…I think I can.

Mom: I KNOW you can!

She did it. And so, when we got home we had a tea party – which was very well sign posted!

After lunch and “tea” Jan went off to home teach and I threw the girls into the car and met our friends to snap a few family photos and capture their general cuteness.  I did a few practice shots with Mills. This is one of my faves. (The ISO was too high, but still – that little face of hers is just so SWEET!)

So, with Clara more or less strapped to me,

I took the following photos of one of the worlds MOST ADORABLE families:

Just look at the mug on this kid!

Love them stripes!

Addie didn’t sit much during our photo shoot, but Jan managed to snap this at the very end of our session when she was worn out.

Here we have the mommy Tanelle and little man Carson series –

(I ask you, is this woman not DARLING?!)

Ben tossing Addie sky high

Nathan doing what Nathan does best… be 100% B O Y!

Jan showed up for the last 30 minutes and took some brilliant shots, like this one right here (above).

When we got home, we put the girls to bed then I worked on my heart shaped cup cakes. I realized that if I cut off the “muffin top” flipped them upside down and THEN frosted them you could really make out the heart shape. So I did this, wrapped them up and took them over to say “thank you” to a family in our ward who sang a solo at the end of our primary program.

No wonder I am so stink’n tired today.

Stink’n tired and very

very

very

happy

that

the

PRIMARY PROGRAM

is

now

a

happy

memory.