Will Someone Take a Picture of ME???

WARNING:  This post is of the same pride as my Hawaiian post a year ago.  What is it about August?  I need serious help!  

No one takes pictures of me.

Cam hates the camera (unless he is taking pictures of rock formations and flowers in Hawaii) and the kids don't really think about it.

So I am left to take all of the pictures which is great, except I am never in them.  That may not seem like a big deal, but one day WHEN I DIE, they'll want to do a movie of me for the viewing and they won't be able to because there won't be any pictures of me.  Actually, that isn't true. There are pictures of me, but only ones that I detest.  It is so sad that that will be the memory the kids will have of me with my hair all disgusting and they'll think I ALWAYS looked like that.  Sadly, the few times I actually looked cute, nobody took my picture.

I was especially sad that in St. George at the Sand Dunes I looked HOT!  Seriously, my hair was done (a rare thing in St. George) and I was lounging around in that orangey sand.  It would have made an adorable kid/mother shot, but it didn't occur to Cam to capture such a moment.  I tried to hint by taking his picture several times and a bunch of the kids, but nobody caught on.

Instead, Cam waited until I had been to the pool all day and hadn't done my hair and THEN took my picture.  I am foiled every time!

I have even tried taking a picture of myself sometimes, but my face always ends up looking like a Horse face. Oh, well.

(A self portrait of me and Cy.  NEIGHGGHGH!)

It is a real problem, though, and one that can't really be fixed.  Taking a photo of someone is kind of like a pat on the back--Hey, I like you!  Hey, I want a picture of you BECAUSE YOU ARE SPECIAL!  It kind of defeats the purpose to say, "Um, do you think I'm special?  Do you think that you might be able to take my picture? Here is the camera.  Yeah, just push that button.  Let me act like I'm having a lot of fun.  Hold on, let me get ready."

Haven't you ever been to someone's house and they have all of these adorable pictures of their family.  They are all (of course) black and white and zoomed in and the mom is carelessly laughing and beautiful and all of these moments have been captured (real or not!).  It would be kind of nice to have that, but I'd just be happy for a couple 4x6s stuck in a book somewhere!  JK (sort of).