Practice makes perfect

Before taking my family's family picture I needed to position people according to height and sweater color. This is such a complicated process. I stressed for MONTHS thinking about what colors to do. I went through so many ideas and it would drive Boyd nuts. When it came down to the actual picture taking process Megan and I spent about an hour picking colors to see what would match and what color would look good where. Then we had to figure our positions and where people would stand/sit. After all this, we were supposed to take the picture in less than 10 minutes, which we did! (congratulations to me!) We had to take it Sunday morning, before church, before Megan and Tom left, after the sun had risen just enough, but before it got too bright outside. To save my self from craziness I made everybody pose the night before to get it just right so when we ran outside, in the freezing cold the next morning we would be prepared. Just like a fire drill. My other conflict was how to get the dog to look at the camera without actually being behind the camera. It was a simple solution, just don't have her in the picture, but then after much protest we decided to have Lily, the dog, in the picture. After all she is part of our family. Turns out, that Lily was the best behaved little doggy in the world. She LOVE getting her picture taken and actually looks at the camera (no offense to some people, but she is better behaved the some of the children I have taken pictures of) With that worry set aside we began to take our practice pictures.

Don't tell my mom. She isn't in this picture because she fell asleep on the couch and looked like this HA HA! Nging Nging thinks it's funny.

After all that stress and worry I think our picture turned out great!

I only had to photoshop Megan's head, Tom's head, Dad's head, and Lily's head.

 Megan came up with the fun idea to have a silly picture using the balloon animals Boyd and I made. I think it was such an awesome idea! I might just have to do this for future shoots!