Family Photos at the Beach

Ah. Family pictures with small children. What a joy. What a workout. What a test of patience. Zianne typically refuses to smile for the camera, and when she does, her new thing is sticking her tongue out of the side of her mouth. See below. Part of me wants to pay a really talented photographer to try to capture our young family perfectly, and the other part of me knows that our current method is best – meeting a friend of a friend at the beach to snap a few pics of our beautiful chaos…