Beautiful in Black & White (a link up)

A blog friend encouraged her readers to play along this weekend by taking close up photos of our children. Here in Chile we had an extra long weekend due to the national holiday, so these were taken today. I don't think there was anything in the guidelines about not editing the pictures so I opted for black and white photos, since I've not used them much lately. Looking at these reminds me of just how thankful I am to God for our five precious children! (Pictures are from youngest to oldest.)

Alec, age 2

Ian, age 2

Owen, age 5

Isabel, age 8

Eva, age 9

Granted, this last one isn't a close up but I wanted to include it anyway. It was taken this morning as we walked the beach on our last free day before heading back to school:

the "Fab Five," 09/20/2010