Families can be together forever, through Heavenly Father's Plan
Saturday, November 6 2004
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Thanks to Jon's sister, Kathryn, for taking this shot.
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1. kristine said:
Great family picture!
2. Fiona said:
Adorable!
3. chellerella said:
I always wondered why people loved to say they were the first - NOW, I know the feeling!
What a great pic!
4. Brooke said:
Awwww.
5. Andrea said:
Frog arm!!
6. Colleen said:
shiny, happy people.
7. the niffer said:
Wow - Chuck has your hair and eyes, Heather. And Leta and Jon's left eyebrows have an identical arch when they smile.
8. RandyRambunctious said:
Awww....cho chweeeet...
Jon looks so awake by the by...
:)
9. angela marie said:
That is a great shot. A woman, a man, a dog and their frog.
10. Alex said:
Angela Marie, your caption has the potential to be the title of a foreign French film. ;)
11. Courtney said:
what a nice picture. I love how leta and john look really high. chuck is a great dog, everyday i pull up a picture of chuck and tell my two weims-THIS IS WHAT A GOOD DOG LOOKS LIKE!
12. Human Writes said:
Now that's one for my wallet!
13. Zeke said:
What a lovely, gorgeous family. Good genes, I tell you!
14. Susie said:
Courtney, I do the same thing with my mutt. "See this? This is Chuck. HE is a GOOD BOY. Be a good boy like CHUCK!!!!" (Yes, that is "of France" punctuation.)
The family pic is a framer, for sure. Joyful.
15. Cathy said:
I love this picture. I think it's funny that Jon and Leta look really excited while Heather and Chuck look quite composed.
You are the sweetest family. How do you get both Leta and Chuck to pose?
16. Amanda said:
Consider the Christmas card dilemma a thing of the past. You're a beautiful bunch, as I'm sure you already know.
17. Heatheranne said:
That is a great picture. You all look so happy!
18. Moxie said:
Jon and Leta's expressions say " We are the have poopeds and they are the pooped nots!"
19. mum's the word said:
Heather--that hair color really suits you!
20. wixlet said:
a wonderful picture! i'd like to see one from the archives where you've duct-taped leta to a wall.
21. kEma said:
dooce,
you give wonderful mummy look, and chuck is so proud saying: Let me introduce you Heather, Mummy Heather. And on the other side Leta is laughing because I suppose Jon had just told her a nice baby joke.
Wonder picture!
22. Jonna said:
Awww, that's such a great shot. Hard to believe that the VERY NEXT DAY it was snowing, the day after T-shirt weather. Heartbreaking.
23. Lorie said:
Oh, look at that look on Leta's face! And Chuck! Oh...and you guys are nice looking, too. I just have a thing for babies and dogs ;)
24. Cristina said:
Beautiful family.
Chuck looks so composed. I think he spies a squirrel behind the photographer and is planning his next move.
25. Cristina said:
Love the title too--are you going to have Chuck sealed into the family....or have you done it already? :)
26. maxigumee said:
Leta looks so devious in this picture. :P I wonder what she's thinking.
27. Jme said:
Chuck looks hunky, I LOVE your hair colour, Jon looks amused and Leta, positively tickled. It's a beaut!!! :D
28. AndreaBT said:
What an awesome grin on Leta's face!
29. maricar said:
An absolutely beautiful family picture. :)
30. Allison said:
Great picture...Leta looks so much like Jon...eve the smile!
31. Amy said:
That might possibly be the biggest smile I have ever seen on a frog.
32. sarcastic journalist said:
ya'll make such a cute family. definately a christmas card-- especially with leta in her costume! So cute.
33. Mir said:
Does the Heavenly Father have a stance on amphibians as part of His sanctioned family unit? Just curious....
34. Holly said:
I want to be with my own family, and god has shown me how i can...
35. TracyDee said:
Christmas card perfect...:)
36. Caroline said:
I love how it's almost a week after Halloween and Leta's still in her costume. It just gives the "don't let your baby play with paper towels" people that much more ammo. Loving you.
P.S did Leta take hits from your bong?
37. Kath said:
Too heartwarming for words, Heather. Now just in case some of your readers wanted to..umm..frame a picture like this, we wouldn't be considered stalkers, would we? You guys are SO part of my family, albeit internet family.
And yes, I totally agree with a suggestion upthread...this screams Christmas Card picture :-)
38. Cessy said:
What a lovely family picture. I love it!
39. diana said:
Damn... Holly beat me to it... but I'm gonna sing it anyway. Ahem...
"I always want to beee with my own familyyyyyyy... and the Lord has shown me how I caaaaaan... the Lord has shown me how I can"
::piano outro here::
40. abc said:
I must say, Dooce, that weather in Utah freaking confuses me!
41. THW said:
Yikes, that frog ate your kid!
42. Becca said:
Priceless.
43. cee said:
Beautifully captured, Heather! A great family you have!
44. Pascale Soleil said:
Like the picture, but "thaking" the photo?
45. Susie said:
I'm curious, now. May we see a picture of that Heather-face that Jon waited all week to see?
46. honeybunny said:
you're a beautiful family! hooray!
47. Dre said:
Jon is hot.
Leta is damn cute!
I want to kiss on Chuck's soft smooth ears. (Dog fur is the softest!)
And, Heather, you, my dear are so uniquely beautiful -- blonde hair or brown -- every pic I see of you, I think, "I wish I looked like that!"
(Okay, so seriously, this is a compliment and NOT meant to sound like it's coming from a psycho stalker. LOL I swear!)
48. Heather said:
Oh, thanks. Now I have that song in my head.
But what a gorgeous family you are!
49. Ev said:
Great photo. Heather, you look like a thin Kate Winslet in this photo.
50. Ariel said:
Oh my gosh: Look at Jon and his little dopelganger! Too cute. This photo reminds me of pictures of my husband with his parents. I always joke with his mom that she cut off a finger and it grew into my husband -- they are practically twins. In this shot, Jon and Leta are rocking that same look. SO CUTE!
51. Mary said:
It's official: You have made the Very Cutest Family Ever list. And I think you're pretty much at the top.
52. Aleigh said:
Wow, you guys both have really large hands. Maybe it's just the picture, or the teeniness of Chuck and Leta.
But, wow. I'm just sayin...
53. Bridget said:
You look like Kate Winslet in that photo.
54. Brooke said:
I'd definately hide if I had kids.
55. Karen said:
Oh my God ... is that ... it IS ... is it??
Dooce ... are you SMILING??? ;o)
56. shy me said:
I love how you and Chuck are like "are you taking the picture yet?" and Jon and Leta are just gigglin at... something! awesomely cute photo.
57. Mish said:
Leta has the cutest reddish eyebrows and an adorable family.
58. Liisa said:
Fabulous picture. Those are the ones you keep up long after the kid has moved away from home.
59. Christine said:
What a great shot!
60. disneymike said:
I think we've created a MEMORY here! :O)
61. Amanda said:
Your hair is very cute!
62. elissa said:
that is just awesome. i love family shots. go frog!
63. jess said:
Leta's cuteness kills me. I keep coming back to see this picture cause she so. damn. cute. John and Leta have the same eyes! Their left eye is more squinty when they smile than their right. How cute!
64. Laurel 825 said:
Handsome family.
65. sab said:
What a beautiful family.
66. MelissaS said:
Merry Christmas from The Armstrongs.
It's perfect...with what I go through every year to get a nice shot of my family or even my kids together....I'm tempted to just stick our faces on all of your heads....
My daughter would look great as the family dog.
67. annette said:
such a beautiful, happy family. definitely something to aspire to.
68. eco2geek said:
I'm with Karen -- we need more shots like this where the Dooce is actually _smiling_.
(Chuckles is the only one who looks solemn in that picture. Perhaps some Photoshopping is in order.)
69. Amber said:
awww
70. Kimba No Limba said:
Ahhh! The top of John's head is missing! He's been scalped! Down with imperatives!!!!!!!!
71. Em said:
So lovely to see the whole Dooce family all together!
72. Amanda said:
Is that your yard? It looks very nice and vegitated.
73. Matt said:
I detect restraint on Chuck - your eyes and his body shape betray the fact that he's not doing as he's told for the photographer (which makes him as smart as he is beautiful! I love Chuck.)
74. DM said:
beautiful picture, dooce. I love your family. And frogs are just plain cool.
75. ling said:
awwwwwwwwwwwww
76. Dana said:
ya'll look awesome -
77. Tam said:
It's a lovely photo all round...
...but LETA'S SMILE! Wonderful.
78. Dara said:
AW!!!!! Very cute family portrait!!!!! XMAS CARDS!!!!!!!
79. Mary said:
You guys look ADORABLE. Leta as a frog = genius. What a wonderful looking family, and even better on the inside than the outside. :}
Well, maybe not on the literal front because of the poop issues, but I think you knew what I meant anyway.
80. Emily said:
TOO CUTE!
81. Nancy said:
Awww..look at that little smile!
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83. Erika said:
Dang.
84. Bec said:
That's a really lovely family picture :D
85. Sarah said:
Usually Leta is a MiniJon but she looks like you in this picture!!
86. Jill said:
I think it is great how happy Leta and her dad look. Why the straight face on mom?
87. The Mighty Jimbo said:
look! a family! only a matter of time till you are all republicans and talking about "values."
88. Jenny said:
You're all smiling! That is so awesome.
89. sparky said:
It is SO tempting to PhotoShop-swap Leta and Jon's faces... they're identical (except for the stubble).
90. Human Writes said:
It's taken me all day, but I think I finally have a descriptor for that look on your face, Heather:
contentment.
91. Drama Queen said:
That's such a sweet family picture. And could you have made a child that looks more like that man? He should have just strapped her to his chest for Halloween and gone as Dr. Evil and Mini-me.
92. Shiz said:
That is SO BEAUTIFUL.
I almost wrote "beautifuk", disctracted because my husband stopped the channel changing on a "Christian" end-of-the-world program, and I learned that the END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH because the European Union is the 7th something or other of the seven something or others predicted in the book of Revelation.
I thought you might appreciate that.
93. Carolynn-Eva said:
So beautiful!
On a weird sidenote, I never realized Chuck is that big. In my head he was a little smaller, but now I see him to human scale comparison, he seems much bigger. Cutie. <3
94. Sara said:
cutest kid EVER.
I especially loved the fallen down picture.
95. Fran said:
The President of the United States, the First Husband, and the the first children.
96. didats said:
great picture...
i like it..!
97. CDNRXBY said:
That is the most adorable family I have ever seen in my entire freaking life! Good on ya! :-)
98. Amber said:
Heather,
I stumbled across msn.com earlier and found an article about "Top 10 Colleges".
Brigham Young is #7 in the "Colleges with Happiest Students" and #7 in the "Colleges with Best Quality of Life".
"One typical undergrad writes, "Students here do not participate in activities that are in contrast with our religious beliefs. For fun we will go to dances and parties that have a healthy environment (no drugs, alcohol, or sexual activities). We spend a lot of time in nature, hiking and such. We play games and go to the movies. "
Here's the best quote:
"We do all the crazy things that other people do when they're drunk. The only difference is that we are sober."
Maybe I gave you a laugh. I'd like to think so.
Here's the link:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/college/default.aspx?page=Rank...
Fun Fun.
Love in Christ,
Amber <><
99. Super Turtle Girl said:
Hmmm. The title. What's wrong with that? Sounds pretty good to me!!!
100. robin said:
What a great photo. You are all smiling, looking at the camera, having a great time. Oh, and the background is gorgeous.
Good stuff.
101. Heather said:
Heather, put away any notions in your mind that Leta looks anything like you. Leta is a mirror image of her daddy. P.S. she makes the cutest damn frog since Kermit!
102. christilee said:
Just Fucking Beautiful.
103. tracye said:
Chuck looks so, serious! He's a great looking god. And he matches his family. Nice picture:)
104. Amy said:
Jesus H Christ ! A frog ate Leta !
Well, at least she appears amused while being digested.
105. Heathertoo said:
You all LOOK so fuckin' normal!
106. Sarcomical said:
omg! you guys are SO beautiful together! and i'm glad chuck's in there, too. it's sweet. little leta is such a doll baby. i have to say, she totally has jon's expression on her face. cute!
107. aibee said:
It would be entirely wrong to print this, frame it, put it on my mantle and tell everyone you're my cousins from Utah, wouldn't it?
Yeah, I thought so....
108. Sue From Ohio said:
Beautiful Family!!!!!