Family picture practice

For my mom's Christmas gift, instead of going to JC Pennys, we've hired a professional photographer to take a family picture. And by professional, I mean one of the engineers at work who takes portraits on the side. I know what you are thinking... an engineer is taking your family picture? Yup. And he is actually pretty good at it.

Anyways, we thought we would have a nice picture taken. You know the ones... where the families are all smiling, look all trendy and hip, like they are a walking commercial for Eddie Bauer or The Gap, probably just drove up in their Lexus SUV, and have Mary Poppins for a nanny back home? Yeah, we want to look like that...

We picked a location at Arizona Falls. Our photographer said that it was kind of loud there. Since our kids all have noise issues, we thought we should try it out first, just to make sure this would work. Get a little practice in, so our kids know what to expect on photo day...

You've seen the Dove Evolution video, right?

I'm hoping our photographer works like that. Because that might be what it takes for us to look like a magazine ad. Let's just say our photographer has his work cut out for him...

"Everybody sit still and smile at the camera!"

"We caaaaaan't look at you. The sun is in our eyes!"

Noah: "I want to start at the bottom of the stairs!"
Levi: "Waaaaaaaahhh!"

"I don't want to be in the picture!"

Can Photshop fix "grumpy and ill-tempered?"

"Levi, you need to behave right now!"

Our poor photographer has no idea what he is in for...

Oh my... we actually managed to get all three smiling.

The location is actually pretty cool. If everyone manages to cooperate, we might actually be able to get some cool pictures.






So in a few weeks, when (if?) I post a nice family photo of us looking like we just walked off the pages of GQ... just know that it's all an illusion...