Last night we got a family picture taken for our new church directory. Actually we had several pictures taken. I mean, several...probably close to 50. I am sure they had to take that many poses with our large and unruly group. Maybe it is so difficult to take family pictures because not everyone involved understands that all six of us have to be looking at the camera with our eyes open at the same time. Caleb was being stupid. Rebekah just wouldn't keep her head where she was told to keep it. Elizabeth had her hands in her mouth. Zechariah, well, he just sat there, but never smiled at the camera. Everyone was more worried about everyone else to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to. At one point the photographer actually put Zech in the chair and walked away. He fell straight forward and did a face plant on the carpet which, of course, resulted in him crying for the next 5-10 minutes while we got some pictures of just the girls. It really was a nightmare.
We even coordinated our outfits around my brand new (beautiful and sentimental) Lia Sophia necklace that I won at my last race. The necklace has mother of pearl so we all wore white. Probably not the best choice in color being that particular hue usually adds more weight to you on top of the camera's ten extra pounds. But we went ahead with it because of the necklace. Then Zech’s head was covering it in every shot. Bummer.
At the end of the very long, exhausting, horrible, experience, they took us to another room and tried to get us to buy some of these not-so-wonderful pictures that would only assist in helping me remember such a unpleasant time with my kids. Let's just put it this way...we got our free 8X10 which will promptly go to my mother-in-law who has requested it. None of the rest of you will even get to see what I am talking about. That is unless you look us up in your church directory.
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