January 25th

On January 25^th, we went to Salt Lake for 3 reasons:

#1-Hallie had an appointment with an allergist to see why she always has a snotty nose (I think we got it all figured out)

#2-It was G.J.'s 30^th Birthday!!!! He is now a hot sexy old man ;) We were able to celebrate with all of his family!!

#3-Since we would all be in one place at one time, G.J.'s mom wanted family pictures. Since we just had family pictures last fall (just of our little family) I wasn't too thrilled with the idea....but it is very rare for G.J.'s family to all be together. Soooo we did. (We ended up missing 1 sister, 1 brother in law, 1 niece, and 2 nephews...)

We celebrated G.J.'s Birthday and the 5 other January birthdays at Tucanos at the Gateway. It was yummy! G.J. had a cake that read, “Here Lies My Youth...” lol :)

Our pictures were quite the fiasco. First off.....Who to get for a photographer that does large groups. G.J.'s cousin had a friend that was supposedly a great photographer. After viewing her website http://www.adoremephotos.com/, she looked legit...and so I was excited.

We were going to have our pictures done at the Utah State Capitol and the grounds surrounding it...pretty cool right?!?! Well....we all thought that too until we realized that Legislature was back in session and that place was PACKED. We found a cute little spot and got the only outdoor shot of my family. Then G.J.'s nephew and his wife showed up with their 2 boys. One is 14 months, the other 2 months, and they didn't want them taking pictures outside.....they pretty much refused to even get out of the car... awkward right? I understand since it is winter and all, but it was 50 degrees and sunny that day, whatever :)

I felt so bad for our photographer....she obviously had planned to do natural light photography, and what do you do when you are standing in the middle of a very busy place with almost 30 people who are ready to have their pictures taken but we don't know where to go???

We finally ended up at the Salt Lake City Library. It is such a cool building. We had to settle on a stair case for all the pictures. I wasn't all that impressed with the pictures. I'm not being rude...but I just like outside pictures better. So, it is the memories that count right?!?!

So here is G.J.'s big, blended, complicated family!!!:

 

The Whole Group

G.J.'s sister Lisa, her husband Matt, and their girls Kelsey and Kenzie

G.J.'s nephew Tanner, his wife Jess, and their boys Fallon and Owen

All the Grand-kids (minus 3)

Grandma and the Grand-kids

G.J.'s brother Lenny, his wife Melissa, and their daughter Tia

Len, Melissa, Tanner, Tia, Jess, and the boys

G.J.'s sister Lorrie, (her hubby was working) and their kids Katlyn and Joey

George and Rosanne with their His, Hers, and ours! George has Danne, Leisha and Amber(she wasn't there) Rosanne had Lenny, Lisa, and Lorrie...and then George and Rosanne got married and had G.J.

Kayler and Joey

All the Adults

Our family

G.J.'s sister Leshia and her husband Danny

G.J.'s sisters Leshia and Danne (Danne has never been married)

George and his kids

Grandma and pa

G.J. and his siblings from Rosanne

Rosanne and her kids

G.J.'s brother Lenny and his adorable Grandsons!

Sooo. did you get all that!?!? I told you, big, blended, and complicated is a way to describe it all!!!