December 8, 2009

• The Other Side of My Family.

   

  Here’s to the Yoders – the other family of mine!

  Seems that I often post pictures of our  families in Pennsylvania – probably because it’s “vacation” to us when we’re there and so I take my camera with me everywhere! But this family in the south is very dear to me as well, and I want to say “I love you!” to them too!

  These were taken at Thanksgiving, and it’s taken me a while to get them up here because I’ve been learning a new photo editing program. Yup. Taking lessons. From a master, for sure. Marylou has been teaching me. I’m a little hestitant to even say who it is, lest I make her look bad because I’m just learning and don’t know how to do everything yet! But she has been such a huge help to me that it would be a great injustice not to say so! So that said - any editing bloopers are my fault, not hers. Thanks, Marylou!!

  This was the year to be together for the Thanksgiving Holiday, and it was a beautiful southern weekend! The day we took these pictures on St. Simons Island was a little chilly – I can see some of the kids’ red noses! But we were able to catch some glorious backlighting for some of the pictures with less people. It was absolutely magical there when the sun was setting!

  For some of you that care, we were at Christ Church for these pictures. This is the same church and area that Eugenia Price wrote about in her many books of the islands of Georgia. A lot of history going on here!

  Without much farther comment, here’s to my Yoder family!

  The five lovely sisters.

  

  Four handsome brothers.

  

  And once again, just because one of them is my husband.

  

  Laurie and Beth.

  
  Beth.

  

  Where it all started… LOVE this picture!!

  

  Parents with the nine children. And if you think that looks like a lot of people, wait till you see the entire family. And we’re just getting started with grandkids!

  

  The entire family. This picture took about 3 hours to edit. In part, because I was new to the editing program, and in part because we had to replace seven heads!! With this many people, you just don’t have one picture that is good – so you combine heads from many different pictures to get one where everyone is looking!

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  The married children…

  Sonya and Marcus. LOVE this picture of them. They look like newly weds.

   

  Rod and Jena.

  

  Mary Jo and Wendall.

  
  
  Ben and his wife.

  

  Zoe.

  

  And Mariana.

  

  Those two played together so sweetly all weekend! It did my mother heart good to see that, because Zoe rarely has an opportunity to play with another little girl her age! Plus, they’re cousins, so that made it extra-sweet!

  I didn’t get the picture of the grandkids edited yet, so here is the unfinished product. Yeah, not sure how to replace the heads of the wailing children because they were howling on every picture here. Perhaps we’ll just let them wail??

  

  Such a fun weekend together! Lots of games, laughter, a campfire, enjoying being together…

  I think this was my favorite family weekend together with them! Just really good times!

  -clarita

   

   

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