In the last 5 years, my parents have lived in Slovakia for almost 2 years, my sister and her family lived in Florida while her husband was in law school for 3 years, and Kyle and I have relocated and been residing in Provo for almost 3 years (and counting!), so whenever all of the family is in town (Phoenix, that is) at the same time, my parents don't miss an opportunity to get family pictures... for which I am extremely grateful. So many wonderful documented stages of our entire family! It is crazy to look back and see just how much our little families have grown. What started out as just my Mom and Dad over 30 years ago has grown to almost 20 members strong (now with grandbaby #11 on the way!), and is still growing.
These are by far my favorite professional pictures we have had taken of our family to date, and for that we can thank the marvelous Jamie Harper (If you are in the Phoenix area and need a great photographer, check out her photography blog here, and her facebook page here), the location was beautiful (LOVE all of the backrounds) and the colors turned out absolutely gorgeous.
(By the way, I made this felt flower scarf myself! It was super easy, and if you interested in making one, too, you can find the tutorial to do so here.)
Due to the busyness of the holiday season and two brothers-in-law working, it was difficult to find a time that worked for everyone. So New Year's Day at 10 am it is! So let me tell you, after keeping the girls up all day the day before and up late for New Year's Eve festivities, and then waking them up at 6 am for wardrobe and hair before setting off across town for family pictures in (slightly) chilly weather did not make for happy, cooperative-picture-taking children! They decided very quickly that they wanted to hide behind mom and anywhere else brought about tears. Needless to say, I was simply astounded to see how great our pictures turned out- Jamie did such an amazing job- you can hardly tell the battle and devastation our little family went through in the process of this photo shoot!
Our little family of five... soon to be SIX!!!
The original Murphy gang:
Sisters! I Love my sisters!!!
If you look, our little family's position in this picture should look very familiar to our individual family shot- everyone was relatively happy, so why ruin a good thing? Simply replace Daddy with Grandma and relocate him to the other side- add 10 more people and BOOM! You got a great large-family picture. ;)
This is a slightly more accurate representation of how much our girls enjoyed taking pictures. It's one of those things you are glad was documented because it is so funny to look back on and remember.
The girls. (The jackets on my girls were a some-what successful negotiation tool)
The boys. Next year we will have another member of our family in this picture- Kyle won't be empty handed ever again!
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