a tale of 2 photos

This summer while we were in Colorado we had family photos taken with Jay's family, and then our family alone. It was a little tough-I had high hopes of using it for our Christmas card this year. Everyone had on clean clothes and some were new. We got the picture and I have it framed. I like it. It sure sums up our family at that moment, that day.

Then we had the easiest photo ever taken with all 6 of us happy and in the photo at the same time. Taken by the lifeguard at the pool.I was really excited to have the "real" family picture done. I wanted to send out a "nice" family photo. But we were not really happy there. In the pool we were happy.

Which one would you have chosen for your family photo?

spt-comfort-peace-hope last spt for 2008!

We are in the process of selling our computers and I only transferred a handful of photos over to this computer. I was planning on catching up with my SPT's that I missed over the holidays. I know I took one for comfort but I did not transfer it and I can't find the one I did for hope either. But this photo works for all three.
Whenever we have a break in our normal routine its easy for our family to get very relaxed in our schedules. Often we loose track of time, and we let things slide. Especially in the morning.
And with that usually goes our family scripture study.
But this break we (Jay) made a real effort to not let it slip away.
And it helped our family. It unites us at the beginning of the day. It fills us. (even when its hard and we think nobody got a thing out of what we read.)