My Mom and Dad are pretty difficult to shop for I came up with the genius idea to have pictures made of their 4 grandkids. I say this a lot, but in one years time they went from having one grandchild to having FOUR. Each of their three kids welcomed a child. Zay arrived to Leslie's home in March 2014, Turner showed up (in Peru) on Christmas Eve 2014, and Connor was born in January 2015. I think it was A LOT for Noah to handle, but it has been the best year! Every child brings such joy to the family. I just can't wait to see how many grandkids they end up having.
We attempted to do Jen's fall mini session, but Russell and Marie were out of town so I was thrilled when I saw that she was doing a Christmas one. It was $100 for a 30 minute session and 4 downloadable pictures. HELLO???? Sign me up! Can't beat that! We could order more pictures off her site or pay $15 for one we wanted the rights to. This was our favorite:
We took it first and it turned out so well. Connor was a little sleepy so he wasn't smiling too big, but Turner is MADE for the camera and Noah and Zay really did well too.
Here is the same picture in color.
The other group picture that I think turned out well too.
Russell and Marie wore the same dress code (black and red) and got a family picture too.
This is my second favorite picture of the day. Look how sweet those boys are! Its precious!
So I didn't think we would have time for the adults to be in the picture so we wore regular clothes, but then everyone wanted to and my clothes actually worked so Cecil took a jacket from his truck and put it over his yellow shirt for this family picture.
Can we go ahead and zoom in on how photogenic my three boys are? Makes me laugh every time.
This picture turned out really sweet too.
And this one is ridiculous, but Mom ended up really liking it when we showed her. Real life.
And Zay's face could not be cuter.
Precious
Then we got a couple Christmas themed ones. Connor was not really cooperating. gahhhh
Then our professional took over and showed Connor how it is done.
I mean look at her! Isn't she so cute. Her full open mouth smile is beautiful AND she will show it too you so easily.
Connor made time to give a little sympathy smile while he was playing with the rug.
I don't think Turner had one year old pictures taken so I zoomed in and made this one B&W to make it a little less Christmasy. Sweet girl. One year old already!
Here are a few behind the scene pictures. Auntie M love.
You should have seen how ridiculous we all looked trying to make all four kids genuinely smile. It was absurd! There were 6 adults calling their names acting silly.
Here are a few of the pictures I framed. The one on the left I gave to Leslie, the one on the right I have to Dad for his office.
As always we were really happy with how they turned out. It was the perfect present for Mom and Dad and for once they actually liked our gift.
why are parents ridiculously hard to shop for?? great gift :)
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