They're here!!!

PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES!!!

Sending our thanks to Sabrina Short of Sweet Sassafras!
Sorry, family, no printing these.  Just let us know which copies you want
and we can arrange ordering them!

Considering how hectic everything was and that I botched everyone who had hair long enough to botch and that I didn't hire a friend to come help juggle kids and fix hair between shots (my ideal because I'm so photo obsessed), they came out pretty cute.  This is a whole slew of our favorites--some are super cute and great quality shots, some are just fun, and some are poses that I liked for future reference.

These next few were taken right near the end.

Happy 10 Years this May, My Love!!!

                       

 

Aww. . .

CUTE!!!

My Little Man!!!

So grown up!

Not the best framing, but what's a photo shoot with a little girl without a couple flower poses?

:)

We were really trying to warm him up!

  

And I knew eventually this would do the trick!

Yay!!!

Hard to choose a favorite with these next ones.

He, he, he!  Buddies!

I wish I'd been holding his hands with my index fingers for this one.
I was probably in the middle of trying to switch when she took the shot, although I think I'd tried to tickle him to get a smile at some point too.  He was missing his nap AND stranger shy, so he was not so thrilled about this whole thing.

Squished Lil'S!

We really tried to get all three kids together, and I wish we'd tried more poses and thought to take H's glasses off to avoid the glare.  It's tough to keep a two-year-old interested and a tired baby content, though, so that didn't really happen, sad to say.

Cute, but they really need Daddy in there someplace too.  

(I've seen too many single mom and kids pictures!)

These just make me laugh.

N wasn't so sure about this either.

Shy N!

Yay for smiles!

HA-hahaha!

So sweet!  Lil'S totally adores his baby brother.  

Someday I hope the same thing will exist in the reverse!

My silly crew!

Another Family Photoshoot Pict

I didn't notice this picture S took because I only saw what he'd posted to Facebook, not all of the pictures he'd taken.  He did a nice job framing it.  This is the kids at the duck pond of the Sarah Duke Gardens.

Coming Soon!

Family Pictures!

We just had them today.  I'm not making any promises, but still I'm excited and hopeful because it's the first time we've actually sought out someone else to take a nice group shot for us.  However, I was so overanxious about them that we ended up with two botched haircuts, everyone wearing blue shirts but Daddy*, and only a 40 min. session instead of an hour long one.  But, hey, it'll be us, and hopefully everyone will be smiling!  Okay, except maybe N.  Baby's are given that excuse.  

Overall, though, we really had a great time during it--so much so that I think we just might do it again sometime. . . . in another five or so years, that is.  (Sooner would be great, but we'll just have to see how life goes, eh?)

Here's a shot S got of Lil'S and H looking at some ducks after we were done.

*We originally planend on the girls in brown sweaters (with baby blue accents) and the boys in baby blue but Daddy didn't have a brown shirt to match Lil'S and N, except Lil'S's blue shirt is too bright, but we can't put him in brown because then he'd be the odd-man out, so boys in ? and oh look daddy's blue shirt is too bright so what should he wear?  Oh, his green eyes look great in that green shirt.  Daddy in green!  So, should we put H in yellow because she look so much better in yellow than blue?  Then boys in green and girls in whatever, which for H was a new blue dress she'd just been given, yet the Mom ran out of time to put sew new buttons on her brown sweater and pulled on her teal blue fitted top she's been eyeing.  Then the two boys then ended up wearing different shades of blue as Dad followed Mom's scatter-brained, directive shouts as she dressed in the bedroom.  That's how Daddy ended up being the odd ball out.  But, hey, we grabbed a brown shirt for N on the way out the door, so maybe in at least one shot Daddy won't stand out too badly.  :)  How's that for stream of conscience?