School’s out. Which means I have all of my babies, from the littlest to the biggest, home.
As must as I wish it were otherwise, this is rare. Due to Zach’s college schedule, sometimes this phenomenon only occurs twice a year.
Which leaves a mama with only one thing to do.
Insist on taking pictures.
Thankfully, I knew a place we could go where the kids can actually have fun in the process. Even better, it’s free.
And we picked a day that had a questionable forecast, in order to miss the crowds, and arrived just as the rain came.
No worries, though. We had a pretty solid roof overhead.
And not having anywhere else to go kinda worked in my favor.
Because taking pictures of this group? Is a lee-tle bit time consuming.
By the time the rain stopped we were ready to move on to one of my very favorite picture-taking spots ever.
Same spot I took pictures about a year ago.
Oh my. These faces.
All together.
By the time we were ready to move out into the open, the rain had stopped.
But we were kinda-sorta tired of taking pictures.
So instead of trying to smile, we made some half-hearted silly faces, or stared off into the distance, dreaming of doing anything other than family pictures.
Most likely dreaming of the Sonic corn dogs and slushies I might have used as an *ahem* encouragement to smile for the camera.
When I told the kids it was time to go, then they decided they actually wanted to play a little longer.
Love, love, love these babies of mine.