Family Photos

I thought I was so on top of things back in September when I booked an appointment to have Christmas pictures taken of the children. I booked for late November which would give me plenty of time to have Christmas cards made and get them all out well before Christmas. I carefully chose outfits for Reese and Hunter which would perfectly compliment eachother. I battled with Reese the night before to make sure her hair was just perfect. Naps were adjusted accordingly so we could be there on-time, and happy. You get it right???........ A LOT of preparation was put into this! I knew as I neared the counter at the photography studio that something was wrong. I was a half an hour late. A half an hour. My appointment was for 9 and we all showed up, looking gorgeous I might add, at 9:30. Tough luck. Nothing they could do. It was clearly my own stupidity. So rather than show my face there again, I carted the family off to the beach to try to get some worthwhile pictures. Mark deserves full credit here, he was the one behind the camera (or clicking the remote in a few). Although I'm not sure any of these will make a Christmas card, they certainly turned out well:



















Oh, and I now realize we don't pay professional photographers enough. To get a 2 year old, a 6 month old, a dog and 2 tired out parents to all look at a camera at the same time and look happy is NOT an easy task.....right Mark??? Mark took over 100 pictures and this is what we narrowed it down to.