Finally!!

Whenever people come over to my house I get lots of weird looks because there are no pictures up of the boys... none at all. I take a million of my own pictures but never develop them. And it took me over 4 months to order their newborn pictures from our photographer and then there was a little glitch in the order so they took almost 2 more months to get here, but they finally came!!

Yesterday, I put them all into the frame set I had ordered from Walmart (only $20 for 10 frames!!) and arranged them on the kitchen table the way I wanted them hung. Brandon graciously hung them all up for me even though it took much more time and mathematical skill than I thought it would. I went on and on about how easy it would be but it turns out he was right, I guess I didn't think it through well enough. Oh well, it turned out so great and I LOVE looking at these sweet pictures of my boys taken when they were only 1 week old. I smile every time I walk by the wall now :-) Here's the finished product:

Here are close-ups of each of the pictures. (They're pretty grainy because I couldn't figure out how to operate our scanner so I just took pictures of the pictures). And please don't ask me to tell you which kid is which because I haven't the faintest idea.

This one's my favorite, the way he's holding onto his Daddy's hand just melts my heart!

I ordered some in color and am going to frame them and put them in the boys' nursery and in our bedroom.




They were SO small and now they've already grown so much in just 6 months! These pictures are a good reminder to me to savor these days while they're still sweet babies because I'll never get them back.

Oh and a HUGE thanks to my handy husband for hanging these! Here's a funny conversation that took place as we were hanging them:

Me: "Brandon, just use the leveler to make sure all the edges are even."

Brandon: "There's no such thing as a 'leveler' Kim, it's called a level."

Me: "Well, whenever something performs an action, you can just add an 'er' to the end of the word and it becomes a noun. So I can call it a leveler because that's what it does, it levels things."

Brandon: "Oh, like 'whiner'? Yeah, I guess you're right..."