I am so guilty for not doing this since last year. So, this is two years in a row...2007 and 2006. You will, of course, be able to tell which one is which, because of the '06 shirts we wear, and becuase I wanted to see how much different we looked. I want to keep adding and adding to this every year so we can look back someday and see the sweet, calssic faces of these kids. I am so excited to get started. 
"Where is that smile when we need it?"...2007
"Where is that smile when we need it?"...2007
"Like Father, Like Son"......2006
"Face of the Year"......2006
"Best of Cousins"......2006Here goes the "family" updates for '07. Gotta love it!
Let's start with this little girl here. Emma is such a trooper - she loves smiling, taking pictures, doing ballet, eating, and everything you could imagine. She has been obsessed with being a "princess/ballerina/mommy" when she grows up (as if...) and really enjoys the so-called "company" of her lip gloss (clear coat) and mommy's mascara. Being beautiful is everything to her. Mind the pink cowgirl boots she cannot live without! She admires the fact that "Dora Lives" and is completely in love with it all the way. She knows more Spanish than I do, and I take Spanish in school! Everything she does is hysterical (unless, of course, she is writing "pretty picture" on the walls or "pretty face"-ing herself in the mirror with Addie's (my) makeup). Otherwise, she is the best little girl anywhere that "hides" (covers her face) when she is in trouble or says "I didn't do it!" and smiled really big, trying to look cute, even when she is guilty. Funny thing is, if you try to get her in trouble, she'll ecape! And if she runs up and hugs you all happily for no apperant reason, something is very very wrong. But she is so much fun to be around and we cannot wait for her next birthday coming soon. (Well, at least she's already potty-trained!)
Ethan is the Man of the Year. He has been able to strike out big eighth-graders in baseball in our front yard, is the right kid to be around, and doesn't care if he is shorter than anyone else in his grade, becuase he gets the kisses from all the nieghborhood girls every year, and is almost beating Tal's time (by about three seconds, which is good becuase that is rare for boys his age, height, and underwieght). This Yankee-addicted madman can beat a kid in a race any day! His big heart, cute hair, adorable little cheeks and flattering smile make all the girls come back for more. (I know my parents don't want me to share this but we were at a resturant and a little girl came up and kissed him on the cheek and ran away. It was just a two-year-old girl! It was a while back, though...so funny.) He is so athletic and very popular, because everyone at his school - not just in his grade - know him really well. Ethan is also pretty good at hitting, even if he is using Tal's big-barrel bat and is starting a leauge this season for the first time in coach pitch. He is a great runner, fielder, and a little Dennis Lamb for sure! He is just a wonderful kid with a big heart and a great sense of humor...we love him!
I'm not exactly sure what to say about this baseball-playing, football-addicted, fast-moving, piano-playing kid. Blessed (just like his sister) with the "Gift of Gab", he is such a maniac and is more aggressive than EVER on the field, in the dugout, or on the front yard. Baptized just last year (as in 2006, sorry...) he has been such a dude ever since. Picking up speed, playing in a kid pitch season with some very administered players - Let's put this seriously! - he is one heck of a player. I cannot believe how fast this little Rob Lamb ever picked up. Smarter than ever with great averages, perfect scores in every subject, this is what we call "TD Tal" (Touchdown Tal)...he personality manages to beat wildly and all the girls seem crazy for it (it must be genetics- I wonder where he got the good looks???) he seems to be very competitive, which is not something we entirely recommend, but it is an extreme family trait! Anyway, we are the kids who know their stuff, but Talmage is the rulemaker of all games played by our family.
Gymnast, soccer player, cheerleader, tumbler, basketball player, team leader, volleyball player, runner...I guess academics is nothing to me (JUST KIDDING!!! :) Although I am moving a little too fast on my sporting events, I don't care and just take life by the horns (is that already a slogan???). Fast-paced, upbeat and crazy are three words to descride me. FAST-PACED: I cannot stay still for one second, and must be passing in gym at all times. That is my subject, of course, because I never stop working for the top/gold. 18 goals this year in one season of soccer, passed up on floor, bars, beam and vault on fall term for gymnastics, am taking a one-on-one semi-coaching ritual for tumbling, play Beehive Basketball (it's in the Young Womans "education"), I am team leader for soccer, tumbling and gymnastics, I do/did a volleyball summer season on a sort of junior, junior Varsity team (like........JJV?????), I am the fastest runner that is fifteen and younger in my neighorhood, and i am the fastest female runer in my school (coming in fourth-place all around, being the first girl past the finish line...). UPBEAT: I am always one step ahead of everyone, no matter what. CRAZY: I do too many sports, I guess.We Love You All!!!!!!
~Happy New Year~
~Happy New Year~
