Christmas greetings from Dani, Jason

Here is one cute family... Great mom and dad, protective and loving big brother and hyper active over the top cute twin sisters! You don't get better than this. Of course throw in the mix last minute preparation, an inexperienced photographer (me), a family running late with no time to spare and what do you get... The Sander's Christmas portraits.



This is the closest the twins ever got to smiling for the camera. They just were not amused!

Don't stick that lip out at me Emma!



Even when the twins don't make happy faces you can't but help wanting to reach through the monitor and trying to give those cheeks a pinch!



I thought that if I threw some snow the twins just might smile... Another failure.



Next time I know exactly what to do to make the pictures "picture perfect".

They'll be coming around the mountain when they come

Dani, Jason and the family arrived last night. We (Anji, Clayton and their dad) spent the night at Nana and Papas. It is so exciting to see how the twins are growing and getting so cute! I took a few something like 114 pictures during our 18 hour (most of it was spent sleeping, more so by certain women folk) visit, and thought that I should share a few of them just to try to get the rest of the family excited to come and visit!

Here is Emma eating a piece of a puzzle. These girls eat a lot and frequently!

This is Ellie's super model pose. She was doing the wild fling her hair thing that the models do but well....

All I can say is this kid is one good looking kid!

As Jackson is the only grandchild that can carry a coherent conversation he of course began a story involving the fabled Thomas the tank engine.

Dani of course managed to solve all our problems.

Dani decided that she couldnt solve Terry's problems and Terry decided that certain individual's problems are simply not solvable.

The next morning Jason made every one breakfast of homemade Pancakes with freshly squoze-from-the-gallon-milk. Good stuff Jason, promptly afterward Anji, and Dani fell asleep. What a pair of sleeping angels!

I will warn you ahead of time, Nana and Papa went crazy buying all manner of children's toys. Papa has enough train track to run from Salt Lake to Bountiful and Nana picked up a freight load of new toys for the grand kids to play with. Clayton and Jack were trying out the new Play-doh set!




Feeding time, I have forgotten just how messy babes are when they eat. Not that Clayton is a whole lot better, but those twins....... they managed to tear things up!


That apple sauce is sour......





This is one of those moments when I was able to capture a Jackson classic. Can you guess what Jackson is saying in this picture below?

Jackson explaining to Papa why he is not happy. Man, you should have seen Papa sweat bullets as he tried to figure things out!