Saturday, November 8, 2008

Family Pictures






We made the annual grueling pilgrimage called family pictures. (Why do we need to send out Christmas Cards?) The process goes as follows: Finding something that everyone has in their closets that will work; getting all the kids to look clean and presentable all at the same time; finding the camera equipment, putting up with the groans and complaints coming from the kids who all wanted to spend Saturday morning doing something else. (As if this was the top of our list either, maybe right in front of a root canal.) They we had to find a location, set up the tripod, figure out how the timer worked on the camera, get everyone in the same place at the same time looking happy and festive, and try to get Harley to be photogenic. Well our efforts are as follows. After an hour and a half of torture we all survived to see another day and extremely grateful we don't have to do this again for another 12 months. Hope everyone had a better day than my children!



7 comments:

Anna Marks said...

The kids look so cute, I love the one of Cassie up in the tree!! Good Job Kelly!! Val, you look absolutely stunning!! I love your hair longer, it looks great!!

The Andersons: said...

Love the pictures. You guys did a great job taking the pictures yourselves. The whole family looks great, especially the mommy! I was wondering where the pictures of Val and the boys, and Val and Cass...C'mon Valorie, you are photogenic, get in the pictures!

Dione said...

I'm impressed! Where did you do the shoot? I'm hoping to get pictures this weekend while McKenna is home. By the way - what have you been feeding your boys? They've grown so much! And HANDSOME!

laurel said...

Wonderful pictures. We couldn't believe how old Ryan looks. Austin said he looks like he could be the dad. Austin looks like a little shrimp in comparison. I love all the individual shots. They are beuatiful.

The Johnsons said...

GREAT JOB KELLY!!!! But then again when has Kelly not had his camera in hand taking wonderful pictures? They turned out really good. I wish we lived by you and then I would have Kelly take ours. :) I bet he is glad he doesn't live by us. Ha ha.

Melissa said...

Would you come do my family??? Seriously, those are great!

Marianne said...

It may have taken a might effort by everyone in the family, but the pictures turned out REALLY well!!!! I think it was definitely worth the stress and strain.