Life As We Know It

We expected pictures to go bad...but we never expected it to go as badly as it did. Not one good picture of the 5 of them. Gavin, our always-happy-child, started everyone off with a full blown fit. When he wasn't crying, Grace was. She wanted her binki and couldn't understand that if she would just smile for one or two pics she'd get it back. They had no props for our boys to help them sit. So they're laying on the floor in almost all of them. At one point the gal had Jamie sit Indian Style of the floor and she threw a sheet over him. He was supposed to hold the three boys and the girls were going to sit next to them somehow. Yes, it looked as stupid as it sounds and even if it had looked ok, didn't come close to working. So at lunch we decided that maybe we'd just buy a picture with the most children crying to represent our life. When we went back to view the pics we only got to view the ones the photographer preselected...so we didn't even get to see the "bad" ones. We ended up with a panoramic shot of 5 squirmy kids with the title "Life As We Know It".