My daughter and wife and daughter won fourth-runner up for her age division out of about 75 contestants.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Hyatt, Wichita, National American Miss Pageant<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 25, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Kyle and Kianna love to make people laugh! A-yuk!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> At home<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My beautiful girls having a great time at the zoo!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Sedgwick County Zoo<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> October 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

This is a picture of me -- Donna Brubaker of Wichita -- taken after my friend Rita and I surprised her dad for his 80th birthday. He didn't know I was coming (I flew in a few days before) and I was just elated we had pulled it off. I was very, very happy!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> 80th birthday party of Joe Chiappetta<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Aug. 7, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Happiness is going from black and white. <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> El Dorado<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> June 14, 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Playing in the Atlantic Ocean surf at Juno Beach, Fla.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Juno Beach, Fla.<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> March 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Summer fun at grandma's on the water slide. <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Grandpa and grandma's house<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

I snapped this photo as Camden was enjoying his first official "solid food" meal of rice cereal. He loved it! His big brother Harper was nearby keeping him smiling as well.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Derby<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Having fun spending time with our son's friend Trevor Green from Australia<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Knoxville Nationals-Knoxville Iowa<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Aug. 14, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Rosalind Chambers, happy to be on the ferry taking her to Cliff Island, Maine, for a well-deserved vacation.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Portland, Maine<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 10, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Fun day at the new waterpark in Riverside Park<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Riverside Park<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> 2008<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

This baby is contagious joy!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Andover<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My family<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Old Town<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> May 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Matt and Jill Bruner, husband and wife, enjoying spending quality time together! :) <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Benefit concert<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> May 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My baby girl, Hayley, enjoying her first b-day cake!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Derby<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> November 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Boomer Sooner girl!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Home<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Last month<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Mom and Hayley in the bubble bath! Suds of fun!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Home<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> A couple of months ago<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Mac and Maggie, friends for life<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Home<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> 2006<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My boys, Barrett and Cooper, showing off their muscles.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> June 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Happiness is Grandma's "swimming pool"<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 16, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Grandson Carson smiling. (He was only five days old!)<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Daughter's house<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Jim playing with grandson Hayden, who he hadn't seen since Christmas.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Bumpass, Virginia<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

This is my daughter Charli. We had been on the road quite a while. We stopped for gas, and she saw this crazy pink monkey! One smile from that sweet face and he was all hers!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Truck stop in Texas<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> June 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Girls know how to have fun! Me and my best friends' girls. Love to see them laughing like we do!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> March 16, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

A nest fell out of the tree, so my kids Chelsie and Taylor decided to try to feed the bird. I told all three to pose for this photo.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Bel Aire<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> 1996<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Don't see smiles like this often from our sweet little Autistic girl!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Tatum learning to swing on her own.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> In our yard<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Sept. 4, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

My nephew Cooper decided he wanted to trade places with our dog.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Eureka, Kan.<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> 2005<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Preston riding on the carousel with his Nana.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Independence, Kan.<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 16, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

My Daughter and I enjoying her last day at Summer Camp. Ding Dong Baseball!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> South YMCA<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Granddaughter happy to be with her cousin at the pool.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Latrobe, Pa.<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Summer 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Brad Cunningham holding his daughter Nicholl'e the first time. He was in love!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> St. Francis Hospital<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 22, 1982<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

Wichitan Bill Bayer and his granddaughter, Evangeline Arner (18 months old of New Haven, CT), were blowing bubbles when they gave each other these loving looks.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a>

My neighbor loves all creatures. Here she is snuggling with a toad. <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Front porch<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Seven years ago<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/happy/">Click to see additional Photos of Happiness galleries.</a> | Courtesy photo

This photo is of our Corgis, Sammy and Faith, very close and sweet sisters. This is not a posed photo. This is how I saw them sleeping.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Playing in East Okoboji Lake<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Arnold's Park, Iowa<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 21, 2006<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Playin' the Blues makes us happy!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Blues By The Tracks, Halstead, Kan.<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> April 29, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

These are my two granddaughters, Hailie and Stacey, having a care-free day. It reminds me of when I was a little girl and had not a worry in the world. <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> On a hay bale in a pasture in Andover<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Spring 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My daughters, ages 2 and 4.5, modeling their new Christmas pajamas<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Home in Haysville<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> December 1958<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

This is Knox Emerson, and happiness is wearing one of Dad's hats. Knox is No. 19 of our 21 great grandkids. Jean Alexander, Wichita<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Frisco, Texas<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My happy son, who was 3 months old at the time!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Wichita<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Ethan, just being goofy.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Montana<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Summer 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

"Happy trails to you." Just two cowgirls out on the Prairie.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> My Kitchen<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> September 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

This was laughing in the tent on a rainy day on our family camping trip<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Near Rustic, Colorado<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Aug. 4, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Sugar in Clay's baseball mitt<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Derby<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Last year<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

This is our granddaughters with a pig for our 50th anniversary celebration meal. The food was wonderful, and everyone had a great time.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Church fellowship hall<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> July 31, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Taking a bath is one of Aymon's favorite things to do.<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> In our bathroom<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> August 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

Ellie Nicole taking a bath after a long day of family fun! Pure happiness is bubbles and my rubber ducky!<br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Nana's house<br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Sept. 6, 2010<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/upload/">Click to upload a photo that makes you happy.</a> | Courtesy photo

My grandma's windchimes making beautiful music. <br></br><strong>Location:</strong> Pampa, Texas <br></br><strong>Date:</strong> Summer of 2009<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/07/1481842/photos-of-happiness-7-updated.html">Click to see the seventh Photos of Happiness gallery.</a> | Courtesy photo