Take Two...

One of my very favorite people in the world gave me the best Christmas gift this year. It is one of those books that you put together of pictures you have taken, like Heritage Maker, if you have heard of that. She actually put it together with pictures of my kids that she took one day while we were at Gardner Village. I love it so much! I have it on my fireplace mantle at home. Anyways, it was such a great gift that I decided to put one together for my dad, (probably the hardest person ever to buy for) of all of his grandkids for his birthday this year. I had all these ideas of different poses we would use and in my mind it played out perfectly!!! I thought that it would go as follows: all smile at the same time, everyone looking at the camera all at once, perfect poses, etc. etc. A yeah, 7 kids under the age of eight....not so much. It was a very interesting, but fun experience trying to take pictures of this little group. They so where not into taking pictures, first of all it was freezing outside even with all their gear on, and second they wanted to play with one another, not just stand there and take pics. Go figure. Anyways, (this is for you Les) here are some pictures of them during our second attempt at taking their pictures. The first time around was just a mess! And I wasn't pleased with any of the pictures, so I told the moms we were going to try again the following Saturday. And when we were done I thought once again I got nothing, however when I got home and looked at what we got I was surprised! I think we actually got a few good ones. And I think that my dad is going to love it.