We Are Family

Since we took a new family portrait for our Christmas cards, I thought it might be interesting to compile all the pictures we've used (or in some cases, could have used) for the main picture on our website.

First, here's a picture of Steph and I from 2000. Someone (I think her sister Melissa) commented that these looked like engagement photos, although we'd been dating less than a year at the time... maybe she knew something:

This was the first picture we used on the front page of our website. I think Peekay was only a couple of months old at the time:

This was our family portrait on the website until today when I finally replaced it with a picture of the whole family. We're sailing in San Diego Bay on Steph's parents' boat last Christmas:

This is obviously the picture of us about to leave the hospital with our brand new bundle of joy. I considered making this the website image, but none of us find it phenomenally flattering, and I love the picture of us on the boat so I just stuck with it for a while longer:


This is the picture we took with my parents on one of their visits with the express purpose of replacing the website family portrait. I don't know how many times we had people over to the house or brought the camera with us places thinking "This will be the time we ask someone to take a nice picture of our little family" and then forgot about it. Then we finally remembered at a restaurant before taking my parents to the airport, and I never got around to actually putting it on the website:

And finally, here's the picture we included in our Christmas card, which is the new public face of the Metzes:

I think it's the best one yet.