Bonus Challenge 1: Get A Family Photo Taken

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Andy Law

The challenge

Get a family photo taken.
As with some other challenges, this one is pretty loosely worded. Technically, I guess I could have called it complete when I got a random to take a photo of all of us on a bike ride last April. However, I feel this one needs some degree of formality. Not just a random snap, but an intentional, posed family group photo taken by someone who does this sort of thing professionally.
Challenge not complete!
Enter Nat, Renae's sister and professional visual artist, who is also conveniently currently staying at our house.
She's the one on the left.
As it's March, and I really need to tick off the last four one-off challenges, I tapped our current house guest to act as our official photographer. Then it was just a case of gathering the children, getting them dressed, re-gathering the children, getting them re-dressed, gathering Nat and Nae, gathering Cooper, gathering the children for a third time and then getting everyone posed and looking photogenic.
Early attempts at this were not entirely successful...
Nat, being a starving, hipster artist, owns an old, manual, film SLR, with which she took a bunch of photos.  I'll let you know how those turn out later.  Meantime, we did prevail upon her to compromise her artistic vision and take a few pictures with a more instant device.
It's surprisingly hard to get six people to all smile at the same time!
 
 Challenge complete!

Will I do it again?

Probably. It's always nice to have a reminder of how little all the kids were.

Long-term updates

French words "learned" (according to the memrise app):1,003! Past the 1k mark.
Daily photos taken? Yes.
Swordfighting learnt: Many visitorsmean few opportunities to hit people with pointy things.
I am currently reading: Nope. Just not reading at the minute it seems.
"Cheat" days on food since last week:One. Stupid roleplay nights.
"Cheat" days on exercise: Oh, look, we all know what the answer is here.
My favourite drawing:  No drawings this week due to being out of pattern with guests.

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