Monday, August 11, 2014

Family Pictures!! Whew...glad to have this off the to do list!

We made it through another round of our "Annual Family Pics".  Whew.  I would love to once again do the more free-lance versus posed pictures, but these are just easy.  Plus they print them within 15 minutes, so all the work is done!!  The really fun part of the pictures is the Trader Joe's next door to shop at while the pictures are being printed.  Trader Joe's even upgraded to two different size kiddo shopping carts, which was perfect for Brooke & Tyler.  I should have gotten a picture of this too! 
Here are the "selected / printed pictures".  Fortunately the kids were in smiling moods, and the photographer was quick with the camera!!



Here are a few of the attempts at the family picture.  The photographer actually took about 10 or more to get the one above.  Brooke kept on being pretty "floppy" as shown in the first shot. 


Here are just a handful of the more candidate shots of the kids.  (Plus a boring profile picture of me for work.)



And finally we get to the point when the kids are done with pictures!!  The trick is always start with your favorite backgrounds / outfits, and go from there.  Didn't want you to think all shots were so cute.  (Okay maybe these are cute too, but from more of the "ha ha your kids do that too" kind of way!)