We always seem to want family pictures in the Fall - that's because I'm thinking Christmas cards. This year, we arranged with our neighbor to have a real photo shoot.
Jason does photography on the side (in real life, he is a network administrator similar to Adam). He is really developing a talent with the photography! Here are the shots from our photo shoot.
We headed to a local park at about 4:30 in the afternoon. Morgan is our cooperative child. She left Kristie (Jason's wife and Photography Assistant, and the mother of our girls' best friends) pose her anyway - almost like a doll. Then Morgan would give a great smile and look where she was told to look and Jason started snapping pictures.
Kaylyn was highly uncooperative. I finally convinced her to take a picture with me. In the picture below, she is fighting just a little bit to stay - that's why her smile is almost a smirk.
She warmed up just a little bit to include her sister in the picture.
We moved over to a bridge by some rocks. We tried getting some shots of Morgan walking and skipping across the bridge but the lighting wasn't right so the pictures didn't turn out. Kaylyn decided to climb the rocks. I followed her a little bit and signaled Jason to try to get some pictures of Kaylyn without her knowing. Kaylyn either didn't know or decided to cooperate - by throwing leaves on me (you'll see my hand in the bottom right) and laughing.
Under the bridge are these little waterfalls that Morgan posed in front of. She is our little model :)
Adam arrived and we started some family group shots. Kaylyn still didn't want to cooperate so she was squirming. But Jason with his talent captured this shot and I love it - it shows personality and movement and Kaylyn is smiling, at the camera!
Because we had the picture of me with the girls, we wanted a shot of Adam with the girls. Morgan didn't want to sit still and immediately started climbing Adam. We went with the flow, although we had to keep telling her to not cover Daddy's face when she was holding on to him. She is squealing here, claiming she's going to fall (not our monkey girl).
We were then able to get some family group shots in front of the lake. I like this picture, but I do have to admit I don't like that our faces are so squared up with each other.
This one I like because the girls aren't directly underneath but I like our faces better in the other family shot.
The girls took off to run around with their friends so we were able to get some couple shots.
We did a little dancing while Jason took pictures and he caught this little dip. (So no, we weren't posing.)
After the couple pictures, the kids were close by and Jason lined them all up for a friend picture.
Or two. The two extra kids are Jason and Kristie's kids - who our girls always want to play with. Let me say, it is very advantageous to have your daughter's best friend just a few houses away so that I don't have to drive her to a playdate.
When we tried to get Kaylyn's pictures at the beginning of the photo shoot, she was highly uncooperative (I know I mentioned that but she was REALLY uncooperative). We tried to bribe her with going out to eat afterwards but it didn't work. After we finished our pictures, she asked where we were going to eat. We told her that since she didn't get her picture taken, we couldn't go. She then asked to have her pictures taken. Jason was very sweet and pulled his camera back out and got these shots of her.
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