picture fun!

Today I ventured out to get pictures take of the kids together for a holiday card/ announcement of sophia! Wow, was that a lot of work. First I had to pick out what each kid was going to wear- which is not easy for me. I finally found the outfits for us to wear, then I had to get each kid in their outfit. As soon as I mentioned it was for pictures, they were not very willing to let me get them dressed!!

I had a 10:50 appointment time, which I made at 9:15 am so I had about one hour to get everyone, including me dressed and in the car! We pulled in the parking lot at 10:47 am which is not too bad and only had to wait about 10 minutes to start getting photographed. The guy who was taking our pictures was not that great with kids and seemed frustrated with us before the first picture. he maybe needs to look into another profession because we were his first clients of the day and other than not smiling much and not sitting where he wanted them to my kids were not that bad. No one really screamed which was nice, but it seemed to take forever to get them to get in position.

Then I had to load up all 3 kids, run over to Wendy's to get them lunch, go back, unload all 3 kids and set up a picnic lunch on the floor so I could sit with the photographer and do picture selection. Surprisingly it went pretty well since both kids were occupied with lunch until the fought over the frosty.

Luckily we were able to find a few pictures that would work. I then had to reload everyone and get them home for naps and organize pictures. I decided to send out some Christmas cards to get them out to everyone. I will post them on here and on facebook after people get them in the mail- I dont want to ruin the surprise for those who are getting them in the mail.

Before Sophia, it had only been a couple months of be being used to managing 2 kids and now I have 3! Sophia is not a problem other than being one more thing to carry and one more kid to feed! It is hard to hold hands with the other 2 when carrying the baby carrier and diaper bag which I had pretty much started leaving in the car since these two dont really need to be changed very often.

Luckily I only do the portrait innovations thing 2ce a year, I am already looking forward to the next time.