Max’s Three Year Old Pictures

So anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE having pictures of my kids taken. I had their pictures made at birth, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, a year old, and then every year after that. Seriously, my house is completely bursting with pictures (well what can I say? I have cute kids!)! Well, needless to say, all of this professional photography business gets EXPENSIVE. And also, we are super poor right now… so with Max turning three, I decided it was time to put my nice camera to use and attempt to take his three year old pictures by myself! So yesterday I dressed him in some cute clothes and we hit the backyard… and I learned why I pay people to take pictures of my kids… it is HARD! Max wouldn’t smile for me, I had weird shadows in the backgrounds of my pictures, I forgot to keep a lookout for my background and I have the garage in some of my pictures, I never got exactly the right angles I was shooting for, etc. I probably took a MILLION pictures of that kid, and out of the million I only got a few I actually liked! But hey, I DID get that few! : )

So in most of these pictures, I just accidently managed to snap a picture right when Max was naturally smiling. It was a good thing because the kid WOULD NOT SMILE FOR ME!!! He would stick his tongue out or smile with his eyes closed or make a silly face, but he wouldn’t just SMILE! So I don’t think it’s ALL the fault of the brand new photographer! : )

Also, part of the problem was Makenna was following me around BEGGING me to take pictures of HER. So here is her own picture collage:

Okay, Grandmas, here is what you need to do. You need to look at all the pictures and tell me which pictures you want (and what size you want them and how many you want of them). We can print out the whole collage, or you can tell me specific pictures within the collage and I can have just those individual pictures printed out. I will just send them to your Wal-Mart for you to pick up. : )

Okay, that’s all (also, I will just keep my day job because obviously I’m no photographer!).

Tomorrow I am off to Young Women Camp! Austin starts his first “real” week as a doctor tomorrow, so a family in the ward has volunteered to keep my kids while I am gone… so here’s hoping things go great for all of us!