The Real Us

Early last month I asked our friend Ashley to come over and take some family pictures. I was really wanting to capture us, all of us, since so often James or I am left out of the photos. I wanted to photograph what our daughters would remember. The Saturday morning breakfasts and floor time reading books when Mama and Daddy haven't showered yet and the girls are just being themselves. This is us, the real us. We didn't get dressed up and pose in a certain way, we didn't make Lucy smile or try to get Vada to look at the camera at just the right time. We just did us, and Ashley did an amazing job of "getting" what I was talking about.