Family Photos

Simple family tasks that are usually fun and rewarding seem to be a very daunting for us. I can't speak for other families who have lost a child, but for us, it has been a battle to get family photos done. We struggled for a long time because we neglected to get a family photo while Drew was alive. We kept putting it off thinking "we have plenty of time." We were also trying to be careful with money because I was not longer working. All the normal excuses in the book lead to a major regret.

More excuses came over the past year and a half, braces, money, time...excuse, excuse. Finally, after my braces were taken off and I found a fabulous deal on Groupon for a portrait package we decided it was time. We struggled on and off with how to represent our whole family in a photo. It felt so wrong to get pictures done without our handsome baby. We decided that having him in the photo by using one of our favorite pictures would satisfy our need to have him represented in our family enough to get them done.

We are a very finicky family...mostly just Robert. We spent an entire night out shopping for the "perfect" picture frame. Personally I didn't care what the frame looked like because the only thing I would look at was his face.

Here it is....we love it!

We were also very lucky to have a good friend who is also a member of our ward take our pictures! She did a fabulous job and was very patient with us.

Moral of the story...don't let silly things get in the way of making and capturing beautiful moments in your families life. Excuses are just excuses...you can always work around them.

After we got the pictures back, I pulled out the last family photo we had done....BIG DIFFERENCE!

We look like a completely different family...reality is...we are.