Family pictures

In September we took our annual family pictures. I feel very strongly about getting nice family pictures taken every year, and it's a great Christmas present for grandparents who have everything. I love our photographer (her photography blog can be found here). She's fantastic with the kids and very easy going. So, here's a few of our favorite.

 It's impossible to get Lacey to just smile naturally.

But her little crazy person look is pretty cute, too.

Awww, Mommy and Daddy love each other.

This photo shoot took place at the beginning of one of Amy's sicknesses (see earlier post). At the time I thought she had a low grade fever, and I thought that she was just teething, but then that night her fever spiked to 104.5... so my poor baby wasn't feeling well, and she smiled exactly one time during the entire photo shoot. Luckily, we got it on camera, and it was perfect.

It's almost required that a photo shoot crumble to tantrums and tears. 

And when it did, we had some lovely late afternoon sun in the west to use for silhouette pictures. You can't tell that both kids are screaming their heads off, and it makes a really cute picture.