This year the holiday season seemed to sneak up on me including having some holiday photos for a Christmas card. My friend Cindy & I decided that we would get together on an afternoon and take shots of one another's family. I had fun piecing together color coordinating outfits for our family and practically envisioned the adorable photo. Sounds good in theory but... we were a little nutty and chose a Friday night to do this, we let the kids (and their family dog) play while we got things set up, we had some cute expectations about fun holiday backdrops, had some candy bribes, and the biggest fault of the evening was expecting the kids to cooperate with all the distractions.
We started off with Jensen and Davis and couldn't get smiles out of the baby. Davis admittedly did a great job looking at the camera and we ended up with a lot of great shots of him, even a few of him & the dog. Then it was Clara & Janie's turn! HA!
Most of the photos turned out about like these!
I lucked out and got one cute one of each girl!
Even a cute one of Daddy & his girls...
Amidst of hundreds of closed eyes and super silly faces, I did capture this sweet one for which I am grateful, but the shot below (with my crazy hair) was the best out of some comically bad expressions photo after photo. And I had to sacrifice the color of this photo where we are all looking forward because the exposure was a little off. So much for matching outfits!
My take away...Change my expectations!! And next year get a professional sitting scheduled early!
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