Sunday, January 1, 2012

All five

For just two Sundays--today and next week--all five kids are in Primary. Afton had her first day as a very young Sunbeam, and Emma is just nine days shy of her 12th birthday. I'm so glad the kids' ages are close. I'm so glad they love each other. I'm so glad their favorite thing ever is posing for photos. Oh wait, never mind.
I wanted to capture this brief time of unity, and here's how it went. The big kids have standing instructions: just keep looking and smiling. The little girls are coerced, bribed and threatened: just look at the camera, please--if you could hold still and smile too that'd be great, but mostly just look over here. These crack me up.

5 comments:

julie said...

very cute and very cool they are all together for a few weeks.

Sharlene, Mom, Grammy said...

Love those "primary kids." And of course your photo shoot short film. I am in awe of your talents.

The Borden Family said...

Love that last one the best! I love your open honesty about how easy it is to take pictures of all 5 kids! Love having Emma in my class now!

joelb said...

thanks for pointing out the symmetry. what's next for emma? do they still call it beehives?

Brad said...

Love it. Shoud call this little bit "Sunday's Warriors" right? :)