One Year Pictures

Last month while Amelia and I were in Minnesota my mom had her one year pictures taken.




This dress is special to our family because my sister and I both wore it for our one year pictures back in 1986 and 1988. My grandma had it made for me.


Usually I like black and white pictures, but I prefer color for these particular pictures! What do you think?


Amelia's other dress (a black and white one) somehow didn't make it to Target with us :( So, she wore her regular clothes for a few pictures too!



Getting these few, good pictures was quite a challenge. Amelia was so crabby and so unwilling to smile pretty. A lot of the pictures look like this:


Or this:


Just a blank stare.

Family Photo Shoot

This morning we all headed to Sears for our first photo shoot as a family! We had the first appointment of the day and they didn't have another one until three hours later, so we got to take our time!

We ended up going with a photo package that came with the full rights to our images. We got the image CD right away today, which I wasn't expecting (ah, the wonders of technology), so I am able to share some of the pictures with you all! All together we got 107 images (several of most poses, with different enhancements on them) on the CD.

Anyways, here is a sampling of our pictures from today:
















Now family, when viewing these pictures, please keep in mind that we have already done some things with these pictures for gifts for you all! Be patient! And you can always get any pictures from us (in the future) because we do have the rights to them all :)

All in all we had a good experience today! We ended up being there for 4 hours, eek! It was a much longer process than we anticipated but it was nice not being rushed because of other people's appointments! We are thinking we may go back and do a Christmas photo now...we'll see :)