I was at a birthday party this weekend. It was for my niece who turned six years old. I had in mind that we could make a photo book about her 6th birthday and so I made sure to take lots of pictures of specific people who were there.
Action photos of her older brother playing baseball.
Her little brother eating birthday cake sitting on the steps.
The birthday cake itself, which was made by the birthday girl’s older sister.
Then a photo of her other sister giving me the birthday cake and ice cream. It’s a close up and the cake looks delicious!
We got photos of her gifts. A book. Underwear!! A great dress. A necklace (that we gave her!)
There are pictures of the birthday girl’s mom and dad doing all kinds of things, playing games, scaring my boy, cooking, etc.
There are pictures of her grandparents, all four. Sipping coffee. Giving hugs. Enjoying the great weather.
We were the birthday girl’s only uncle and aunt who were there along with our little guy. There are probably very few photos of us but that’s fine.
There was a relative from Sweden
We did a group shot of everyone who was there. I set the shot up, told everybody to squeeze in. CHEESE. 10 seconds later the photo took.
One set of grandparents also had a camera who took photos and we’ll try to get those to include in the book.
All those photos are going to be an amazing in a photo book. But time will change and we’ll never all be there at that moment again. When my niece is 16 years old, 26 years old and 36 years old she will have an amazing TIME CAPSULE of her 6th birthday.
The question is… how many people were at the birthday party?
Answer: 15 people. WOW!
