sarah null photography

I’ve been positively buried in nostalgia lately.  Our twin boys turned six years old (!!) this past week, and we’ve been reminiscing our heads off around here.

I’ve especially been reminded of how indescribably important it can be to have photos to jog your memories…but not just any photos, not just snapshots, but really great photographs that capture the spirit of the moment and can trigger previously forgotten senses. Things like those little noises they make while nursing, all that wonderful baby chub of their legs and arms and even hands, how perfectly perfect it felt to cradle them in your arms as they drifted off to sleep.

It turns out our boys are rather like the cobblers’ children and are seriously lacking in Good Photos of themselves as newborns, something I honestly may never get over and will spend the rest of my days regretting.  That said, somehow, by the Grace of God, I was lucky enough to get this one noisy, grainy, poorly-lit but otherwise exactly what I wanted snapshot of the boys in the hospital, on their first day of life (perhaps even the first 12 hours of life).

They are significantly larger now, but they’re just as noisy and good at making messes today. And we love them just as much as we did the second we first met them.