Attempt at a Family Portrait

Last week, we tried to get a family portrait. Stuart brought the camera and tripod out to a park so we could take our own picture. He took tons of pictures just to get one decent one. Nicholas was having too much fun acting silly to pose seriously. Many of our pictures include Nicholas singing, talking, and making silly faces. Most of them look something like this!



But we did finally get a good one with all of us sitting still, smiling, AND looking at the camera. Amazing!



We were done with the pictures that we needed to take and were ready to go home but Nicholas had other plans. He got this wild-eyed look and decided he wanted to run around and climb on rocks while we were there.





Nicholas climbed up a rock and gave us some impromptu poses for a few more good pictures.







Then he turned around and looked at the creek down below on the other side of the rock. He glanced back at us and gave us that sneaky grin as if to say, "I'm going to climb down this rock and go exploring, with or without you!"