Black and White Wednesday..Laughter :D

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings"

Oh how I love these faces!!!!!!

I adore this picture! (Even the slobber all over Faith's chin from laughing so hard) It was taken 2 1/2 years ago when trying to get a Christmas photo of the kids. You know the one....the one you try desperately to capture with no luck at all. I remember trying so hard to get these 3 to cooperate and begging them to just pleeeease hold still. They laughed at me hysterically and got such a kick out of me desperately trying to get their picture. At the time I had given up on getting that perfect photo and disappointingly decided on one of the many I had taken that day.

Years later it is this photo that I cherish the most from that day. The one where they laughed hysterically at me as I scolded them for not being still and letting me get one decent photo. This is the photo that I had to frame and hang on my wall because it always makes me smile.

I look at this photo now and cannot get over how much they have changed in just these past 2 1/2 years........
Reed with his little boyish grin was only 10....now at 12 his teeth have braces to help with the over bite smile he had in this photo. I can already see his teeth shifting and I miss that little overbite boyish grin.
Faith was only 4 and not even in school yet. I remember the time this photo was taken we were considering holding her back a year from Kindergarten the following year. Now she is almost 7, in 1st grade, and recently received an academic achievement award.
Dean was 12 and now at 14 is taller than me and no longer has his full face he has in this photo. He has thinned out, his voice is changing, and he will soon finish his first year of High School.
One thing hasn't changed though.......they still laugh at their silly Mom!