Family Pictures

I admit it...I LOVE taking family pictures. I don't know why. I just love dressing up my family and having a very nice picture to send out to our family and friends. When I started thinking about getting Christmas cards ready I realized that I could not use anything from our last photo shoot in March. Lyla was not born yet. So of course I immediately arranged to have another family picture taken.

I really tried LJ's patience for this one being our 2nd family picture in less than a year. He HATES taking family pictures. Still, he understood my reasoning and was a very good sport about it. There is a new guy in my ward who teaches photography at Ironwood High School. I decided to call him to see if he did anything like this on the side. He was happy to. His website is http://www.photosbynewton.com/ if anyone is interested in his work.

It wasn't easy getting a shot with all 4 kids looking in the same direction! We actually had to do some PhotoShop magic but in the end I have a picture that I'm really happy with. I'm not going to post it here yet. I'm saving it for my cards. After they go out, I'll add it to the top of the blog. If you're not on my mailing list, email your address to osmondfreak@cox.net. I'd be happy to send you one.

Here are some others that I think turned out very nice.

This is Luke showing his "happy face".

I love this one of Luke & Lyla!