When J and I were first married, I envisioned us taking beautiful family pictures every year at Christmas. It worked for the first few years. 4 to be exact. And then we moved to Asia 3 days before S's first Christmas. The following Christmas I was in labour with B. The Christmas after that we were packing to move back to Asia and B was in and out of the hospital. And then there was this Christmas. So as it turns out, our family usually takes family pictures at Easter. And that's good, too.