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Our first ever submitted temple names!

Unfortunately these baby birds are no longer among the living.  Ravens are as terrifying as Edgar Allen Poe says they are.

The Outfit Rules

I think I hit a milestone recently because the highlight of my week was booking a family photo shoot.  Isn't that a thing middle-aged women get excited about?  It is. Come what may, and I am that woman now.

Anyway, so now the internet tells me I need to figure out what we should wear.  It can't be "matchy," but it must be coordinated with the perfect accent colors and suddenly I'm no longer sure if we're talking about dressing people or couches. Oh and by the way, it's way easier to follow these outfit rules if you have a family of 9 people to dress.  It's not like I can wear the neutral, the accent, the pattern, and the pop all at once.  Maybe we can bring some...smartly dressed stuffed animals?

Oh, and as I'm writing this, Scott made the comment,"I wonder what I'm going to wear."  It's sweet that he thinks this will be any of his concern. The rules don't allow for wondering.

I realized one key element to all of this is the location.  I talked to the photographer and she said to plan on greenery and barnwood.  Phew, that sounds easy.  Wait, what goes with barnwood?  (Barns?  The stuffed animals?)  The stress of all this is rather exciting.  Will we look great or not?  The excitement, the intrigue, the adrenaline!  Maybe most people don't get adrenaline from photo shoots, but I'm remembering every year of school pictures when the teacher would hold yours up for all to see, and I almost died every time.  You just never know what could've happened.*  Speaking of which, who remembers the rubber chicken guy at Shelley Elementary?  What a career.

And now, a trip down memory lane with some professional photos of the past. These are definitely filtered to avoid all four of our buck teeth.  (Not enough time has passed.)

I think my color scheme of choice will need to involve plaid collars...

*Exhibit A here.

Saturday

Saturday was full of such pretty things.  That's what happens when you buy yourself some flowers and expensive fruits and then you spend the day perfectly charring stuff on the grill.  Apparently grill marks and flowers are equally beautiful in my mind.  

Saturday was also a day for some firsts.  

• I took a real live nap.  During the day.  I still find it weird people do this regularly but I guess it's pretty great once a year.  
• I also entered a photo contest.  No I don't even think I take especially good photos. In my mind I just assume they'll give every entrant a prize.  (What is this, church?)  Anyway, maybe no one else will enter....just like that time Scott and I assumed we'd win every guitar at Best in Music. 
• I did a new maximum amount of pull ups and I'm sure no one is tired of hearing me brag about that right?  Ok great. 
• We bought a ladder.
• We tried Scoopology.  Unfortunately Baskin Robbins can't be dethroned in the Foley household.  If you don't offer Scott a World Class Chocolate and me a Bananas Foster flavor, you will not prevail.