photostory friday: black and white

we've been having these family photos taken since.....well - this long ago

some years were better than others

1999

2000
the small-children-on-the-back-of-the-older-children-and-everyone-had-fringes (bangs) year

2001

the we-couldn't-get-everyone-to-smile-at-the-same-time year

2002
the half-lying-around-half-sitting-up year

2003
the i -wish-i'd-insisted-she-cut-that-straggly-hair-and

the-composition-of-the-group-shot-is-starting-to-fall-apart year

we had them regularly every year until the family revolted:

"do we have to have a family photo EVERY year?"

no, i replied sulkily.

so we skipped 2004

cut to 2005

the there's-that-tall-blonde-child-again year

then the family REALLY revolted and i didn't ask again for a couple of years

i think these turned out pretty good though
(my family's growing up!)

2007

of course after many years of family photos, we're runnin' out of ways to pose the girls...

i didn't bother the fam last year for a photo in case my head got bitten off, so you can imagine my surprise, when the chance to have a sitting came up, and i casually put the question to miss 20.

her answer: "i wouldn't be TOTALLY opposed to the idea"...

then of course came the juggling act to find a time that suited everyone. miss 18 works saturdays, miss 20 sundays. you get the picture.

in the end i dragged them all out of bed at 7am on a saturday morning...

...but it was totally worth it.

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