All together...for now...

With our oldest leaving tonight for a summer internship in NYC and our second oldest leaving next week for another summer working with a ministry team, we had a 2 week window of opportunity to take family photos. Who knows the next time we will all be in the same place at the same time? Of course we waited until the last possible moment but we succeeded. Kind of.

There's that age-old problem of getting Victor to look and smile at the camera, at the same time. Oh, and we realized on the way to the neighbor's to take advantage of his lovely lawn, that Shoun was wearing the same shirt that he wore in the last two family photos. Oh well. He either needs to grow so the shirt is too small or he needs to fall in love with another blue, black, gray, or white shirt (aka King's Strings concert compatible).

So we solved the problem of the blind child not looking...just have everyone look away from the camera!

And then for the boys.

First we couldn't get Victor to look in the right direction.

Then Shoun decided to look down just as Victor (almost) looked at the camera.

And the girls.

And Mom and Dad.

Til next time...