Family photos

The day after Thanksgiving was spent getting family photos.  My sister in law Beth and I planned a full day of lunch, presents, and photos for Dan's mom as a birthday/Christmas gift.  Naturally nothing went as planned.  Dan and I decided not to go to lunch due to Jakes nap time being at noon.  We did not want him tired and cranky for pictures and ruin them, we felt bad for canceling and missing a family lunch, but tired boys are no fun.

We arrived at the house after Jake and Cal woke from nap and started pictures.  We color coordinated with everyone, purples, blacks, and grays.  It went as smoothly as it could with 8 young children running around.  When pictures were over, we had a snafu with pricing (the photographer said we owed more money even though we all agreed to a smaller fee), and we all thought the whole thing was rushed and not very professional.

When I got the proofs back I was astounded with how terrible they were.  Some were in black and white when we wanted color and certain pictures we requested were missing.  After arguing and getting mad, we finally got all the pictures.  As you can see from the pictures below, they are not very good.  Some people are not looking at the camera, some poses are too squished, and most needed to be zoomed in.  The price we paid certainly did not match the quality of photos we expected.

Notice the car showing in this picture and my mouth wide open like I'm trying to eat Jake.

There were more pictures but I chose not to share them because I looked so awful.  Next time I will be sure to find a better photographer.