I wonder if they did a study, if families with 4 children are happiest of all.  The more I meet families with that magic number, the more I think it’s true.  While I’m sure the day-in-day-out routine with 4 small children can be exhausting, the joy they share seems to make it all worth while.  It was a joy to photograph this family of 6 under the cherry blossoms! 

As kids get older, it’s rare to have an image with one parent and one child.  Two hands = multitasking and group photos (usually with mom behind the camera) so we took the time to have each child pose with both mom and dad on their own.

Note the scraped knee in this next one… but the photo shoot went on!  Tough guy did a great job 🙂