Real life

As one of our friends here always says, "Life is not so ideal!" A long time family tradition for me is to take family pictures on Easter, and I tried two different times to take family photos that day. BUT... Caleb's pants got stained, Susanna got into my makeup and had it ALL over her and her outfit before photo time, and Emily cried every time I tried to take pictures! This was the best of three different times of taking photos of the kids together...

The rest looked like this!

That evening we all took a walk and the kids started making funny faces at each other. I thought to myself, THIS is our real life--getting out, having fun, laughing, making memories from the simplest of things. So here are our real life Easter photos...