The Family Curse

A couple of weeks ago, one of my cousins contacted me and asked (among other things) for a recent family photo of my brood for a special book she was making for our Grandmother. I cringed when I read "family picture" because to date, we have never been able to muster a photograph together as a family. Usually, something like illness or a major break out or some other disfiguring thing happens. Dylan once cracked his head open just hours before we were to go ; another time, our car just plain wouldn't start.

I responded back to my cousin and said that we would send one. I pulled out the camera and my micro tripod and went to work. It's been so long that surely we could make it work right! First, we all had bright red cold noses. Then last Sunday Dylan apparently tripped over his own feet and slammed his face into the caster of the desk chair. He ended up with a bloody and slightly broken nose and a black eye.

Luckily Dylan is okay! It really freaked him out to see his own blood gushing out of his nose but once he got over the shock, he's been okay. He won't let me take a picture of him though because it's just too embarrassing to look like that in a picture. Sigh.

I decided to send a slightly outdated picture from 2003 (and you'll notice the finger smudge on the lens that makes even this picture fuzzy) which is the only time we were able to get a reasonably decent picture to happen.

This is our family curse, no pictures together! It's so frustrating and I hope that we'll be able to pull it off sometime soon!