22 Weeks - Family Photo Shoot

You can't really tell unless you look for it, but the sign does say 22 Weeks 11/8/10.  The marker is running low on ink and your mom and I need to replace it.  It is also worth noting that you can't take a picture next to something without trying to grab it and put it in your mouth.

So this week we had a family photo shoot.  Your mom decided it would be a good idea to have coordinated family photos with the pretty fall colors.  I of course agreed.  The great news is that these photos can be used for Christmas cards as well as hanging on the wall.  We hired a great photographer - your P-Pa!  He has had some practice taking your Aunt Ali and Uncle Kyle's engagement photos so we trusted him.  Not that we trust him just on the results of those photos, but we sure do trust his photography skills based on those results.

We started out at a park just up the hill from our house called Glen Nelson park.  Your mom had done some running around there with her friend Maria Haynie and Credence before they left to Utah.  It was raining a bit which wasn't the real problem.  The problem was the large drops of water coming down off of the trees and the remaining leaves.

Several things you can tell from this photo - First, that the light shade of brown your mom chose to wear did not work out well for the drops of rain.  Second, that unless you have the right umbrella, umbrellas do not look so good in pictures/portraits.  Third, and finally, you can tell that you just have to be holding anything near you.  I mean just look at you holding that umbrella as though you were the one shielding us from the rain.

We took several different groupings in several different places, each with their own set of pros and cons.

Eventually we decided to move on to another park, Lake Fennewick Park.  We drive by it every Sunday on the way to church and all year long except for the dead of winter I think the drive is just gorgeous.  The overhanging branches provide shade and greenery in the summer and there are enough deciduous trees to have some bright color changes in the fall and early winter.

The short version of the rest of this story is we should have started there.  Well, at least we like the pictures best there.  You cooperated the most there and the background was the best there.

One little happy family!