Family Portraits

I LOVE pictures and yet I have a precious few of the four of us all together.  I have been saying pretty much since the time that Colton was born that we needed to get a nice family portrait of us together.  I really wanted something done outside and during the fall.  One of my cousins started doing family portraits about a year and a half ago.  I saw the work she was doing and immediately fell in love.  So, last October I scheduled an appointment to get family photos done.  On the day before our appointment one of the children got really sick so we canceled.  Things then got really crazy for us so we decided to put the pictures off until the spring.  We scheduled a spring appointment (requiring a different set of outfits due to the season change) and the day of our appointment came and so did a monsoon.  So, we scheduled pictures for the following weekend.  A couple of days before our next appointment my cousin called to tell me that she was having some major problems with her editing site and was going to take a break from doing photos for awhile.  She recommended someone else but honestly I preferred Becky's photos so I just never followed up with it.  A couple of months later Becky contacted me and told me she was up and running again.  Yay!!!!  I briefly considered doing some summer pics on the beach but decided to just hold out until the fall.  We scheduled our fall appointment (requiring the third set of outfits) and then the week before Dan reminded me that he was running the Tough Mudder that morning.  I canceled again, telling Becky that I felt like this was never going to work out!  She promised that we would make it work and so we scheduled yet another appointment for last weekend . 

We awoke to a picture perfect Fall Day and neither of the children had fevers.  Whoo Hoo!  Halfway there!  So after a year of trying we FINALLY managed to get family portraits done.  I wish I could tell you that things went smoothly but Colton went into full head spinning monster mode from the very second we got there.  For whatever reason he did NOT want his picture taken and he was about as uncooperative as he has ever been.  We tried every form of bribery that we could think of and nothing worked.  Becky was super patient the entire time, even when Colton was screaming "NOOOOOOO!" at the top of his lungs.  We didn't get very many pictures of Colton alone but we did get some great photos of Brynn and a couple of the much sought after family pictures that I so desperately wanted.  She even managed to capture Colton looking somewhat angelic in a few pictures (I'm guessing there was a lot of photoshop involved!).  So it took a year of planning, 3 sets of outfits, and a somewhat stressful morning but in the end it was worth it.  It's a really good thing because it will probably be a LONG time before I undertake that little project again.

If you need family pictures taken please check out "Simply Photos By Rebecca Calvello" on Facebook.  She is super reasonable, unbelievably patient and does great work!