Pictures,pictures, and more pictures

So, I'm uber-worried about looking back in 20 years and thinking "Omigosh, I don't have a pic of this or that!" and feeling guilty. So in an effort to ease my guilt inducing stress upon myself, I have been havig pictures of the kiddos taken like crazy!

I have wanted for a long time a really great picture of all five of us. Basically it is really hard to get a good picture of all of us, and let's face it - you hand someone my ginormous/complicated looking camera to take a picture of all of us and they look at you like you just grew another head!

Through the wonders of the internet, facebook, and blogging I have become reacquainted with an old friend from high school, Sara. She has created a great side job doing photography. I had been looking forward to this for months (after first having to cancel a while back due to a household infection of pink eye!)



The weather channel had said it would be breezy but nice - boy, were they wrong. We awoke to heavy storms and lots of rain and mud. Sara was a trooper and met us at the park where we proceeded to get VERY muddy! At the time I thought there was no way that we would even get one picture. Again, boy was I wrong! She did a great job and turned a not-so-great day into fabulous pictures! Here is Sara's info, for anyone interested: http://saragriffinphotography.wordpress.com/


Then I took A & P to "Portrait Innovations" for their one year pictures last year. I really wanted some of the same, similar type shots of Hailey. For some strange reason I decided to take the kids n a Friday, by myself to get not only Hailey's portraits done, but heck, why not try to get a picture of all three of them! They really did well (after being bribed with marshmallows) - I NEVER did get a picture of Lil Pete smiling . . . but that is actually his personality: no faking it!




It is truly amazing what a difference one year can make!!