Taking Father's Day Photos

in our house
Mother's Day and Father's Day
are usually filled with homemade gifts and cards
breakfast in bed
and leisurely hours
spent together as a family

in years past
the kids and i
have made lots of fun keepsakes
for the dad in our house

and each year
it gets a bit harder
to find that one perfect gift idea

so this year
instead of being inventive
i decided to keep it simple
by taking some photos of the kids
to frame for dad's office

so i chose some outfits

for my kidlets

that they actually agreed to wear

without too much fussing

and went outside

to take about 

6 thousand shots

give or take

and even managed

to enjoy it

though

you're not allowed to tell anyone

and can i just say

anyone who tells you

that it's a piece of cake

getting 4 siblings to stand next to each other

and  s m i l e  all at the same time

is totally yanking your chain

real smiles

(not those cheesy fakes)

all at the same time

are not so easily come by

but i do think

we got there in the end

and wound up

with the perfect Father's Day gift

after all