Family Pictures

My Cousin's wife, Katelyn Wray took our family pictures last month. She also took Mealea's newborn pictures, she did a great job. If you want to check her out her website is....

katelynwrayphotography.com

We hadn't taken family pictures in a while.... This was our last one

Sawyer was 9 months old in this picture, and he is now 2 1/2.

I thought it was hard taking these family pictures in 2010, but oh...how naive I was as to how bad it could get.

The family picture above was taken at Sears. Indoors. With one kid. And my mom there to help him smile standing behind the camera. One little corner of the studio, that was it. It was easy.

But last month we had an interesting experience trying to take pictures. The kids refused to smile, really we only got one family picture with all of us smiling. They didn't want to sit in one stop, they wanted to explore. Every time they moved their clothes got dirty, then they would wipe their feet on our clothes. Mealea cried and whined a LOT.

It was fun! But I'm sure every parent understands.

The best part about these pictures is that we are done and don't have to take new ones for a while!