OUR Family Photo Shoot...

I am WAY luckily blessed that one of my besties is an amazing photographer.  Amanda and I concocted an amazing plan to swap family pictures.  We had the hardest time figuring out when to do them because our families are so, so busy and not to mention that weekends work best to do something like this and that's what our clients think too!  This was Amanda's 3rd shoot of the day and my 2nd.. had one on Sunday then too. 

We finally figured out a time and would ya guess it.. it starts POURING rain 10 minutes before we are to start.  So we did dinner first and headed out and it ended up being a great night for a shoot.  =)

You KNOW I'm gunna show you the out-takes because they are just about as valuable as the really good ones. =)  I'm a scrapbooker, that's how I roll. =)  So you will first get my comentary on the funny ones and then will get to see the good ones at the end.  My girls are at SUPER hard ages to shoot so Amanda was a saint for even trying!

Ok, here we go!

Good picture of everyone.. cept for my joker looking Adie...

Yo adie.. is it a bird?  A plane? What is so interesting in the sky?

The below one was Darin trying to be funny.. on the way I was coaching him about the pictures and told him to turn his head ever so slightly my way in our pics because it makes us look like we like each other. And he did this the first 5 pictures and just waited for me to look at the camera to find his sneakiness..

Then we tried the trick of lifting Joya up and Amanda would shoot the picture right after she'd land.. Darin thought lifting Joya up to Michigan was a better option.  And praise Jesus there were no broken arms in the process...

So then we try it with both girls and again.. thankful for no broken bones or dislocated shoulders. =/

These were the last bunch we tried.. can you tell everyone is sick of getting their pictures taken?  Including my hubby?  Joya is SCREAMING!  I'm probably saying "Guys, this is the last one." And any of my clients know that when I say that I mean "I'll proabably shoot 26 more.."

And since the scream didn't work Joya is trying to bust out of here..

Oh, forgot this one by the ivy wall. Guess I've never let my girls play in a rock driveway before??  They had NO interest in looking at Amanda... 

This one cracks me up.. Darin and I playing huggie-bear-kissy-face while our girls are desperately trying to escape to play in the rocks!  This is our life!

And those were the out-takes. =)  Now for the keepers!

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We also convinced our boys to do couples pictures.. oh gosh, SO FUN!!!  We decided next photo shoot we're gunna get babysitters, go out to dinner and then end with some just mommy and daddy's pictures. We had a blast..

Man he's hot... hubba hubba!!!

I will leave you with one out-take from our couples shoot.. Me trying a serious look that I'm obviously not very good at and my hubby blatantly looking down my shirt.

Sorry dad, probably didn't want to see your baby girl's hubby sneak a peak but hey, we have two kiddos.  You proably figured it's happened at least twice!

Thanks again for swapping, Amanda!!  Love ya!

ETA: We did our own editing.  We took each other's pictures and then handed each other our memory cards.  =)  I spent no time editing the out-take pictures!