Family Picture

After Christmas, we had to hurry home because we were taking a family picture since EVERYONE was in town. That sure doesn't happen often when you have 8 kids and not every one lives in the same state. 

Here's papa reading books to the kiddos. 

 Ink-a-bink! The grand kids LOVE playing this game. It's a must when grand kids are in town. Some are more competitive than others, and for some reason the older kids are ALWAYS out first. Hmm... what's going on there Papa ;)

 More Ink-a-Bink

 Dean, he's such a sweet heart and I love having this kid around. Rumor has it he gives his mama trouble at times, which makes me think he's doing a great job at being a teenager :)

  

The moment we've been waiting for, big family picture. I was SO sad that it had been nice and cloudy that day and right when we were going to take the picture, BAM the sun came out. Thank goodness for editing and photoshop we were able to make it look okay. This was one of the many, many pictures we took. 

 Dinner time! I love this big huge family of mine, It's so normal now to have so many people around all the time. The house feels so empty when there's only a couple of families in town. 

 Adam looks excited for the Mexican Fiesta

 More presents

Emily had the great idea of each taking a family picture with a letter of the last name Stewart. It came out great.

 Ga and Papa got some See's candies for Christmas and were nice enough to share them with us. Papa likes to take the wrapper off the candies and make it look like he doesn't have any teeth. I tried to be creative with mine and when I showed people, they were all laughing at me. I had no idea what was so funny. Now looking at the pictures, I understand.

 Around the horn, this is another grand kid favorite. One person stands in the middle and we all push them around the circle. They love it!

And our traditional Christmas tree picture, of course!