Nov 25th 2011

I never ever buy the pictures the kids take at school. I think they are over priced and look like the kids have been running around school all day. I would much rather spend that money to take the kids to a studio where I can supervise what their hair looks like or even better have someone take some nice pictures for me outside.

It has been time for our yearly pictures for a while now, but I've been debating on what to do since Laila is so little still. In the end I decided to wait until spring to have my friend take nice pictures for us, but since I still want updated pictures of the kids for our frames I decided to play photographer myself.

And considering I have absolutely no clue how to use my camera still other than put it on auto and the sun was going down quickly, the wind was blowing, and Laila was not happy about our little outing, I'm happy with the few good ones that we got.

This was Macy's idea of a silly pose.

James was being a goober and kept giving me his goofy smile, but that is him, so I'll take it

We did this one just for uncle Keith!

This one says it all, although after we were done all of them said "That was so fun! Can we do it again?"

I didn't even have to tell Samm what to do. She came up with all her own poses.

This one is my favorite because it really shows how much they love each other. I didn't even tell James to hug them, I just said scooch in close and he reached around and pulled them to him.

And we had to throw Laila in for a couple so we could get a Christmas card photo. She wasn't too thrilled about the whole photo shoot thing though so we only got a few with her.