Every year Dave & I make a prayer card that we send in our year-end newsletter to all of our supporting families and Churches in our work with InterVarsity. For example, this was last years…
My Mother’N'Law, Sara took this pic in front of Fenton Lake in the backyard of Dave’s late Grandma H.
We haven’t yet picked & made the pic for this year but I thought it’d be fun to show you the outtakes before you get to see the final product.
My oh my, it was such a task just getting the 4 of us ready to go, not to mention trying to coordinate outfits, get mine & Ransoms hair done & nurse Rhys at just the right time so he’d be either awake & happy or asleep. By the way, he chose the latter.
It’s not my favorite hairstyle, or my favorite sweater, or even our best pics together but it will have to do this year. It was more complicated than I thought to hold a sleepy newborn with no head control.
I was also realizing we have reached the age of fake smiles with Ransom. Ahh, I remember the good old days when all you had to say was “goochie, goochie, goo” & he’d light up the room with a big, beautiful smile.
Without further ado the outtakes…
Ransom decided he wanted to just forget smiling & kiss Rhys
I think is when I started sweating... (yet trying to keep my cool) 
Hopefully by the time you see the “good” ones you’ll appreciate them all the more now!
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it just gets harder, the more kids you have. we have never sent out a family picture/prayer card, and i really want to, but i’m so afraid of getting even one good picture. we have a few family shots from this summer, but now i want to wait until the baby comes and include him. so maybe in late winter or spring.
but the fake smiles seem to get worse with age. my girls are famous for it.