The Family Wall

For the last few months, I have been bothered by our outdated family pictures. Our family pictures hang above the kitchen table in the main area of our house. I sit facing that wall when we sit at the dinner table, so it came to my mind during every meal. The pictures that hung there were the very first professional family pictures we had taken when Dylan was 2 years old. Just the three of us. It has been over a year since Reed was born, and I never got around to adding him up there. And now of course we have Aubree to add too. It has crossed my mind more than once that Aubree might be wondering why we hadn’t added her picture to the wall yet. It just wasn’t right, and I had to do something about it.

I set up a photo session with Amy from Inspired View Photography. She was able to get us in right away, which was great! We met her at a beautiful park, and she started snapping away. The kids weren’t exactly on their best behavior that night, and there was a lot of bribing going on to get them to hold still and smile. I was so thankful that Amy was so patient with the kids, but I was afraid they didn’t give her much opportunity to capture good pictures. I was so pleasantly surprised the next day when she sent me some proofs, and they all looked great! She is a talented photographer to get that many great pictures of our crazy kids! One of my favorite things about Inspired View Photography is that you pay one flat rate, and get all your pictures on CD to print as you wish. I got busy planning our new family photo wall as soon as my CD arrived. Aubree was so excited to help me pick out the pictures of her that would be hung on the wall.

Here is our family photo wall before:

And here is the new, improved family wall:

I hung our new pictures last night after the kids were in bed. They were so excited this morning when they noticed them. The look on Aubree’s face just melted my heart. She had a smile from ear to ear, and was so proud pointing out all the pictures of herself. Hopefully this serves as further proof to her that she’s here to stay. I really hope that she’s starting to believe that.

I can’t believe how our family has grown and changed in just a few short years. It seems like just yesterday that I was crushed and depressed, thinking we wouldn’t be able to have any more kids. Now every time I walk through the house, I get a visual reminder of how very blessed we are. It makes my heart so full.