The people have spoken! The demand is great! I hear your requests! Apparently you, dear readers, want to see pictures of my darling angels! My excuse, other than pure laziness, up until this point has been that the photos I’VE got are sitting on my camera and I haven’t had the time to upload them onto my computer, let alone get them into a blog post. But I saw Jess, Jon, and their Five Little Monkeys yesterday and Jess took some absolutely amazing photos of my kids that I simply must share! 🙂
Yesterday was the first time we’ve ever tried to pack up all six of us and go anywhere and it was a really fun time. I went out last month with just Ellie to see the incredible Redden family, but I just knew that Seth needed to meet them, too, and I’m so glad that we went. If you’ve ever been to Jess’ blog, you know that she’s an amazing photographer and her favorite subjects are her children. So I asked Jess if she would mind taking a photograph of the six of us… since I don’t have a single photo of my entire expanded family yet. Jess, being the kind, loving soul that she is, said, “Of course!”
Next thing I knew, she was dragging out bean bag chairs and drapes to cover them and cloth for a backdrop and holy cow she had a whole little studio set up and she just started taking photos of the babies. In clothes, in diapers, by themselves, together, with J, just the girls, and then, of course, all six of us! Seriously, Jess took hundreds, and I’m NOT exaggerating, HUNDREDS of photos yesterday. She sent me about 40 of them and it’s just so unbelievably hard to choose which ones to post. So maybe you’ll get several posts over the next few days with some of my favorites. But here are a few!
In birth order: Sam, Ellie, Abby. Ellie is SO goofy!
My two boys!
Ellie Bellie!
Abby!
Finally! A picture of the whole expanded family!
Jess,me, and our combined nine children!
Can you believe that we got ALL NINE CHILDREN lined up together in one room long enough to take a picture? It was amazing. Jess and Jon are absolutely incredible, and they were such good sports about putting that picture together. Their kids are so well behaved and such love-bugs. I love them all and I wish we lived a little closer, but I feel so blessed to live as close as I do! (we’re about an hour and a half apart)
Maybe more to come!
ChezPerky 
What a beautiful family!!
And I am so amazed to see all the kids in the picture! That’s just so many children – and no one screaming? Amazing!
(My Braden has the same shirt J has – Being cute 🙂 I love it!)
I can’t wait to see more pictures!
I can’t believe how big they have gotten!!!
gorgeous!
Gorgeous pics, Karen! Your family is beautiful!!! 🙂
SO lovely! what amazing photos!
Delurking to say beautiful pics of you and your family.
Lucki
Such beautiful photos!
Thank you!!!! I love seeing the pics!! They really are good pictures too!! Your whole family is just beautiful!
what a beautiful gift for jess to give you. i LOVE seeing you all.
Amazing photos! The babies are adorable. You have a beautiful family, Karen!
they look so cute and big and strong and healthy!!! Congratulations! All this pumping has worked its magic. You are a star
You family is so BEAUTIFUL! You must be beyond proud of all of your children! And I must say, I LOVE the pic of your two boys!
More than adorable. Priceless!!!!
Amazing pictures…post more, post more!!
Ah! So gorgeous.
(And the site looks fab too!)
How incredible! They are such cuties, and I love all the family photos!
You have such a beautiful family. Your children are just beautiful. You are an excellent writer and I enjoy reading your blog. Thank you for being so honest… and inspirational.
AWW!!! You all look great!
It’s great to see everyone together! The pictures are absolutely amazing too! It’s hard to believe they’re so big already!
Those are the most gorgeous pictures!
You guys are GORGEOUS! What beautiful children you have!
The babies are looking so great! I love that picture with Ellie sticking her tongue out…too cute! Love that you posted a family pic also.
Oh my goodness Karen, your family is SO beautiful!!! Love that close up shot of Ellie…how adorable! You should be SO proud…what an amazing family!