Isaac is 5…and other stuff

I’m a week late, but I wanted to share with you that Isaac had his party yesterday. He turned 5 on October 29 and we were planning on having his birthday party last Saturday, October 31. But, we were a bit busy that day (not to mention we weren’t home!). So we finally had it last night and he had a great time. It was also the time that Damaris made her debut with the rest of the family.

Here are some pictures from his party. Can you guess what his favorite gift was?

I have a confession to make: we are cheap frugal when it comes to most things. Picture taking is one of them. Besides, can you imagine what it is like with 6 small children in a small photo studio? Neither can I, because we don’t do it. No, that doesn’t mean that we neglect far away family and don’t send pictures (that’s actually something that is very important to me. I don’t get monthly pictures sent off, but I do get annual pictures done of the children and of the whole family.) What we do is take the pictures at home. We set up a nice place somewhere in the house and take as many pictures as we want/need. You know how they make you decided what picture you want before you’re even done with the session? Well, this way we can choose the best ones after we are all done. Nice, huh? When we are taking pictures of the whole family, we set the timer on our camera. Then Adam does his work on the computer with the pictures (cropping, blurring, sepia….whatever we choose. He has a great, FREE program called paint.net that is fantastic program to use.), we sent them off to get printed (usually Wallyworld), and they come back to us nice and done. With minimal tears, cost and everyone is happy. This has really worked well for us.

Anyway, all this is to say we took the annual childrens pictures today and I wanted to share some with you. These aren’t the ones we will print off, but they capture the children fairly well.

And because she is just so cute, some more pictures of Damaris.