I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to get a good family picture. Part of the problem is that there are so very few opportunities for family photos. Well, without going through the trouble of scheduling an appointment and paying gobs of money and quarrelling with your spouse about it, then there are very few opportunities.
I decided that as Aunt Miranda and Uncle Dan were here, by golly, we were going to make them take a picture. Alas, I had forgotten that it requires some semblance of simultaneous cooperation from all parties involved. I'm not sure if an "accurate" picture is really as treasure-worthy as an attractive one. Miranda took about 7 pictures. Here is a sampling of them, and unfortunately, the first one IS the best!
Yes, this is as good as it gets for us. Okay, maybe I just like it because Dan and I look best here! Delaney looks confused with no thumb in, and Callie looks zonked. Heh heh heh! Marian wouldn't put on her sweater and I decided it was not worth the fight. Once we got to church it became worth the fight, so she did wear the sweater once we left the house.
Yeah, I'm a goof. Miranda was being silly, and I could not resist. Marian and Callie look cute....
This is our Silly Shot. Delaney didn't get the memo.
And yes, the chaos of getting it all done. Good thing I know I have a cute family, cuz you sure can't tell just how cute from our family picture!! (Thanks Aunt Miranda!!)
4 comments:
I see it only gets harder the more kids you have. My favorite picture is the silly one. I think I would blow that up to an 8x10 and call it my yearly family photo.
If ya want to come on over I will take hours and hours of pictures for free....... I love the silly one but I still have to say I took the best family pictures a few years ago.....lol I miss you all tons.
OH there cute anyone. I was lucky my last family photos were free my friend did them she was starting her photography business. But go somewhere fun outside and try photos, sometimes the best ones aren't the posed sitting perfect pictures. We did ours at the beach still very hard but worth all of the stress we have some great crying ones, all part of the experience I think.
thanks for sharing, now I have pics of your family all together, I totally understand how remarkable that is;) I love Callie's expression in the first one.
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