Pictures December 2013

I've never been a fan of professional photos.  I always thought, we take so many pictures, why do we need to go to a studio and have someone take our pictures for us and then pay an outrageous fee for something we could do at home?  At Christmas time, I thought I would do something different.  I would get the boys matching shirts and then take them to JC Penneys to get some studio pictures done....but not before I tried to do it on my own...
I found these cute shirts at Target.  The boys loved wearing matching shirts.  I took them down to the park in hopes of finding some pretty foilage or fences that we could take our pictures...got there and realized, I forgot the camera...Ughhhh...go back to the house, grab the camera and then we decided to run to the church and use the grassy areas with trees to take some pictures...these are some of the pictures I took.  The boys got cold after a few minutes and so we would go sit in the car with the heater blasted up to thaw and then go for some more pictures.  Trying to get the boys to smile at the same time and look at the camera has always been a challenge and today it seemed especially hard.

 

 This is where they started throwing pinecones at me...and where I started getting some more natural smiles...because they were having so much fun and laughing together....

After an hour of trying to get the perfect picture...we made our appointment with JCPenneys....Within 10 shots, the photographer had several great pictures with the little guys looking at the camera and smiling at the same time.  A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!  ;)

 Maybe there's something to it after all... :)