Our Year In Photos Week 1- Kiddos in the car

Daddy being a goof.
Andrew had said when we bought the Suburban that we had to have 2 more kids to fill up Black Beauty. It seems like we have lots of room left but these boys are growing and will continue to grow. Currently we are using 2 boosters and one 3in1 carseat.

I'm kind of copying a girl's blog that I follow and her great idea to capture family life by taking a picture once a week and posting it. Then at the end of the year I can make a photobook of what our everyday life is like.

I'm been wanting to do something like this for awhile because I find that the last three years the kids grow, but our outings and favorite things to do are usually the same things each year. The same parks, the same hobbies, the same adventures so this project changes things up a bit and I'm quite excited.

I'm copying this from a girl whose blog I follow named Rhonda.
And she got the idea from her photographer friend named Jenn. Jenn came up with it and explained it best so she is quoted here:

"Earlier this week I posted how I've been thinking a lot about the kinds of photographs I want my kids to have of their childhood. Not all the posed "let's go out into this beautiful
field and take some beautiful smiling photographs", but the actual "I have the
coolest room and I love playing lego on the floor" photographs. But that
led me also to thinking how great I am about starting projects and not so great
about finishing them. Which got the wheels turning in my head about a great
project that would require a minimal time commitment and still get me exactly
what I want.And so the Our Year in Photos Project was born. One photo a
week for a year. Each capturing a specific part of our lives and of my kids'
childhood that I want remembered. Once I started writing the idea down,
I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop thinking about everything I wanted captured,
everything I wished I had photos of from when I was 4, everything I wished I had
photos of from when my kids were 4. So I planned out the entire year. And I am
so excited for every single week.Here's how it's going to work. Every
Monday I'm going to post a prompt. You have to take one photo for each week.
That's it....just one photo a week. This is not a time-consuming project. There
will be some weeks where I take 2 photos (one of each kid) but not more than
that, for this project . The prompts aren't going to be difficult - think "a
photograph with my little peanut wearing her favourite shirt".By the end
of the year, I - and you too if you play along - am going to have an album of
images that really show what our everyday life is all about - where we live,
what we love, who we love.Because it's just the way I am, there have to
be some rules. And know these are really more for me than you, in an attempt to
overcome my perfectionist tendencies.You may not quickly change your
child into matching clothes right before you take the photo because it's going
to actually be printed and put in an album. Whatever they're wearing
goes.You may not rush around and pick up all the toys on the floor and put
away the jackets, shoes, whatever is lying around before you take the photo.
Whatever your house looks like at that moment goes.There will be the
occasional prompt that requires you to be in the photo. You may not skip over
those ones. Obviously your kids know that you're there every day, but 10 years
from now will they see it in the photos?Do it. It's only one photo per
week." So the first week of the month is to photograph a room in our
home.

I'm following Rhonda and Jenn's lead and taking a picture of the kids in our car ("Black Beauty"- our 1992 Suburban), instead of a room. We actually don't spend tons of time together in Black Beauty unless we are going to the cabin or on a holiday. Either Ken or I usually do errands on our own, or just with one or two kids at a time. One of the perks of living in a small town is that everything is close by andit's easy to slip out while one of us stays home with the kids. Ken also works here in our hometown only 5km away so other than a trip or two to Lethbridge each week we stay pretty close to home. Today we had an outing to the "beer store" for Dad and to Aunty Mel and Uncle Pete's to drop something off. We were also planning on going to a playground to burn some energy but ran out of time.