It's one of those days that parents dread!!! It is up there with taxes and dentist visits. I asked my husband and teenage daughter which day would be more painful, the day when I was 9 months pregnant, having contractions, had to have a root canal and an OBGYN exam all in the same day or would Saturday October 22 surpass it on my list of days I do not want to ever repeat. It really is torturous from start to finish and yet we have a permanent reminder of the horrible experience we happily hang on our walls.
Family Pictures!!
Preparing for me isn't easy and honestly more expensive than the pictures themselves. How am I supposed to choose one color that everyone in my family will wear and not complain. Then I have to find 9 people cute clothes to wear and not only match themselves from top to bottom but coordinate with everyone else. Then, the morning of, I'm supposed to have everyone up showered, dressed, hair done, fed and up the canyon by 10:30 AM! Then, when you finally get there, everyone will be grumpy,fighting and yelling at each other, and I will wonder why I even had kids to begin with let alone want to hang a picture of them on my wall. This time I started praying really hard that things would work out. I also told my kids that if they would be really good we'd have a yummy lunch and we'd get ice cream. I was thinking if we could get out alive with minimum blood shed we'd stop at McDonalds and if they didn't even do that good we'd go home with a gallon of vanilla.
The morning arrived.
Everything I could do the day before was done. Kids bathed, new clothes laid out (I went with black and gray) and granola bars ready to be thrown at them as we run out the door late. We got up early and everyone got out of the door without any problems. We did leave 15 minutes late, but we had planed leaving early so we left with plenty of time. We did have a hard time finding the photographer, but still started earlier than scheduled. What followed will go down in family history as one of the most amazingly awesomely easy days of my life since having children. The photographer would pose us and everyone stayed and SMILED!! No one cried (not even little chubs). No one got hit, and I didn't have to raise my voice once. The photographer kept saying things like, "perfect", "looks great", "what a model family", and I was walking around in shock. Then when it was all over she said, "That was the easiest group of nine I've ever photographed!" I was so shocked that we took everyone out to our favorite ice cream shop for lunch. The only thing that didn't go as planned was my son broke out in hives all over his arms and yes, even his face. So I guess we'll have to wait and see how they turned out. Life would be boring if everything went smooth, right? At the end I'm very proud to be the mom of my kids. This is one family picture I will be proud and happy to display on my wall.
My kids never stop amazing me.
I hear ya! Family pictures are so hard for us. My SIL especially gives us trouble. It was up in the air until about 30 seconds before the lens started to click if he was even going to be in it.
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What photographer do you use?
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