I’d nearly given up on doing my own family’s portraits this year for our Holiday cards. We’d set up literally three occasions to do them, and then one thing or another would happen and we were out of luck.
And then the leaves stuck around longer than anticipated, and the weather cooperated well past the time it should have … and voila! We had our date. So picture my husband setting up the pose with my kids, with me about 30 yards away getting the camera all set up. Then, I’d hit the self-timer button and literally sprint wildly towards my family (which my children thought to be hilarious and would start sprinting towards me :)), scoop up my kids, get into position and try to talk them into looking towards the camera, and smile. Walk 30 yards back to said camera on tripod. Repeat. I’m not sure how many times this happened til we got our picture, but it actually was a blast. And then we went out to celebrate our success at Nacho Mamas for a margarita for the adults, and quesadillas for the kiddos. Score!
Here are some of the pics.
(my husband is awesome – this was totally spontaneous!)
And I’ll have to upload the individual pics of my kiddos later. This will have to do for now!
Have a great day!
Sorry, the comment was supposed to be here. Just saying that I would love an image like this with all of my children. It really is perfect – Lovely, natural. Just love it!