Family Pictures

A few weeks ago, we had family pictures taken by our pastor's wife.  Our pastor ran the St. Jude Run this year, and his wife helped with his fundraising by offering family pictures to individuals who donated a certain amount to his run.  She did an amazing job and these turned out to be some of my favorite family pictures we've ever had!!  The setting was lovely, the kids all cooperated, and she made it a fun and relaxed process.

The kids all did what they were asked, smiled nicely, and made the process really easy.  Zach and I kept remarking that these couldn't possibly be our kids.

She got so many pictures with natural smiles and cute poses.

This was one of my favorites!!  I love how Briggy is looking at Staley.

And I love pictures of kids laughing!!

And so many good pictures of the kids by themselves.

I think Briggs just looks really grown up in this picture.

And these eyes!!!

We had our pictures taken at the farm and garden of a church family.  So many beautiful options for backgrounds!  The girls kept picking to have their pictures taken by the flowers.

Such a sweet smile!

This might be one of my favorite pictures of Adelie EVER.

And Staley just keeps growing up too fast.

Love, love, love this picture of my little girl.

The kids liked when we were getting pictures of the two of us so they could run off and play with the farm cats.

There were lots of farm cats roaming around, but this one (Oreo) kept insisting on getting into the pictures.  The kids thought it was hilarious!

Family pictures have always been a trial for our family, but they are getting easier.  Maybe it's because our kids are getting older.  Maybe it's because we had someone we know taking the pictures.  Maybe it's because we bribed the kids with ice cream.

Whatever the reason, these family pictures were fun, easy, and turned out great.

#winning