Walker Family Pictures 2014

My littlest brother, Jacob, leaves on his mission at the end of the month (yay for Jacob!) and because that means we won't all be together as a family again for at least two years - we had family pictures taken this last weekend. I was going to stick it in with the "Jacob's leaving on a mission, here are all the things we did in the weeks leading up to the big day" post - but I decided it deserved a post all of it's own. The last family pictures we had taken were in 2012 when Matthew was on his mission and Lydia was only six months old. Since then we've added a new granddaughter, Camille, and a new son-in-law, Blake. (Oh, and Matthew is home from his mission instead of being represented by an 8x10 picture.) 

As I look at these pictures I am overcome with how blessed we are to have such a wonderful, loving family. I love each one of these people very, very much and am grateful for their spot in our lives.

 

   

After the photographer left, we used our nice camera to take a few smaller family group shots. We got some really nice ones of Melissa and Blake, and some amazing ones of Jenna, Kevin and Camille where Camille is actually looking at the camera and smiling this darling smile. However, when it was our turn, Lydia was d.o.n.e. She was crying and refused to let us even hold her while we were taking pictures. It was so sad, because our little family looked so good and it would have been SO nice to have one tiny little picture of the three of us. I suppose I should be grateful that she did so well for the full family pictures, because she really did wonderfully. (Our photographer was great and was able to make Lydia laugh and giggle and look at the camera, a feat that few can claim.) 

 

Good thing she's so cute, right? 

I just love this family and am so glad that we got to capture this moment in our lives.