Madeline invites you to PICTUREFEST!

So I guess it's time for the gads of pictures you've all been waiting for. Brace yourself, they are mostly of Madeline. As the cutest Warner, we have appointed her the official face of the family, and hope you will appreciate Jessie and I working quietly behind the scenes, doing everything else besides looking cute.

Here is our happy little family attempting to look Christmasy. Note that Madeline, is indeed, the cutest; and then note Jessie's awesome tie, which he won at a white elephant game in our married student ward in a hard fought battle. Everyone wanted that tie. But Jessie, being the selfless, giving person he is, stole it out from underneath all of them and kept it for himself.


Here's Madeline, not smiling. She doesn't like posing as an elf, and only smiled when we were busy doing ridiculous things in order to amuse her and not paying enough attention to actually press the button on the camera. Many thanks to Grandma for the cute Santa suit.


This is Madeline getting into places she shouldn't be, which is a routine pastime. This time it's the pantry, although I'll admit, Dad might have aided and abetted her on this one. She doesn't seem to mind though. She found our water storage fascinating.


Tada. She really can stand by herself. She even steps now and again. But mostly she's chicken and sits down at every opportunity, because crawling is obviously the stylish mode of transportation right now. Everybody's doing it. Okay, so maybe it's just Madeline. But she's not afraid to make her own style choices. As you probably noted from the lack of pants. (Her choice, not mine.) A bold choice, but I think it's working for her.


This concludes the Warner Family Picturefest for today. Madeline thanks you for your time and interest, and reminds you that donations to the "Buy Madeline Pants" fund can be made in the front lobby, by check, cash, credit card, or cookies.