So just before we left for our Thanksgiving vacation Preston surprised me with the perfect Christmas present. Yes, almost two months early ;) He had bought me a nice, new camera. One with "a steep learning curve", as he kindly put it. But he knew that I would love to have it as we went about making many family memories over this holiday season. He was right. I was thrilled and read the manual on our drive over to Indiana. And still not knowing what I was doing ;) took pictures all week long like I normally do. Then tragedy struck! There were many priceless and precious moments that I captured and all of a sudden most of them disappeared. And as hard as I tried I could not make them reappear. For me this is heartbreaking.
And so I guess I will just have to picture this...
Picture my husband and my brother on Thanksgiving day out in the pouring, freezing rain. Holding umbrellas for eachother while trying to fry a turkey. Picture it not going well and them constructing tinfoil tents to help things along. Picture us needing to go ahead and feed the kids chicken nuggets for their Thanksgiving lunch because they couldn't wait for the turkey any longer. Picture it finally being "done". Picture my dad carving the turkey and finding it still raw on the inside. So picture us sitting down to our Thanksgiving meal with all the fixings and no turkey. No turkey but a honey baked ham that my dad just happened to have out in the garage :) Picture a wonderful meal with my family surrounding the table (as the kids with already full tummies peacefully watched a movie in the basement) while we enjoyed it.
Picture PJ in the kitchen, trying to one up the Cake Boss, as he decorated the elephant that was Stevens 27th birthday cake. Picture him making pastry bags out of ziplocks because he couldn't find any fondant at Kroger. Picture Steven, surrounded by his nieces and nephews as they sang to him and helped him blow out the candles and eat that beautifully decorated elephant cake.
Picture Kate turning 3 months the same day her Uncle Steven turned 27.
Picture Kate and Steven joining the lineup on the couch for the first time as we took pictures of them in this years Christmas jammies. Picture me recruiting help this year as Katy and Julia helped me madly sew 12 pairs of jammies in the basement.
Picture the look on the kids faces as they excitedly opened a few presents. We had our first annual Peper family cousins ornament exchange. Picture our surprise as baby Steven opened his "ornament" from one of the Detros and we saw mini glass bottles... picture our first mix up between Uncle Steve and baby Steven :)
Picture us adults, after the kids were fast asleep, gathering in the living room for our annual circle game. Picture Lyndsay and Jonah joining us via the computer (google video) - gotta love technology. Picture the wonderful presents that were recieved after all the thought and very early Black Friday shopping was done. Oh and picture me NEVER going to Walmart at midnight on Blakc Friday ever again - that was a first and a last.
Picture us spending half a day getting everyone showered and groomed and fed and happy at the same time, with coordinating outfits, so we could head out the door for family pictures. Imagine the effort. Picture the beautiful scenery and the chill in the air. Picture my little family walking down a woody path hand in hand. Picture the precious close ups of our little children. Picture us having to do it all again now...
On a wierd side note. As I madly was doing everything I could think of to "find" the lost photos I turned on my old camera. And to my surprise, and disbelief, there were pictures from Halloween 2009 that I had "lost". That I counted as gone. But there they were!?! So here are a few of those...
Grandma Eccles was here with us for the holiday.
Notice Tyler concentrating hard so his tounge is sticking out just like Grampa Peper's would.
One of our spooky meals that included white chili and personalized bread hands.
3 comments:
What?!?! You got a new camera? I'm so jealous!! Which one did you get? Don't give up yet on getting the pictures off your camera. I'm sure you'll figure it out. I loved your descriptions, though. It is nice to have pictures, but your descriptions were almost like having a picture. =)
Ugh, there is nothing worse! I hope they resurface, but your description did allow me to picture it all--good documentation!
It was a sad day...oh well. I will have to copy your wonderful descriptions of everything though, because you said it perfectly!!!!!!
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