Saturday Challenge: Favorite Photographs

From GeneaMusings a couple weeks ago:

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:

1)  Show us one of your favorite photographs of your family - a group, yourself, your mom, your dad, your sibling(s), your grandparents, etc.  Tell us about it - the date, the event, the setting, the persons in the photograph.

Two photographs come to mind as perhaps not favorites, but cherished photos. They were taken in summer about a year apart and are among the last photos that my father was there for. Both are of four generations and show his oldest great-grandchildren. 

This photo contains my parents, along with their oldest, Jim, his oldest, Heather, and her oldest, Bridget who was about a year old that day. Her cousin had just been born and didn't like pictures so was in very few. The photo below is of her.

This was taken the following summer. Again my parents, this time with their second child, David, his oldest, Richard, and his oldest, MacKenzie now about a year old.

Both pictures were taken at family gatherings at my brother, David's house. The first is in the kitchen and the second, on the back porch.

These pictures are perhaps the only ones exisiting in my direct lines that feature four different generations.