A Great Photographer = Photos You Love!

We did it!!! We took family pictures with 6 kids and a crazy stressed out mommy! (and a very patient and tolerant daddy!)

I spent hours looking for matching outfits. Then I took them all back and started over. I started with fairly formal black and pink and ended on brown and denim.

...and then there was the hair accessories, shoes and jewelery.....

A date..... Trying to get every one's schedules to work with the weather and perfect lighting.....

We finally decided on a location. We wanted something a little more funky and different from the more formal pictures we usually take. We thought about the Riparian Preserve, inside our home, inside a beautiful custom Tuscan home (that I WISH was our home...), in a field, by a farmhouse, in a cute, shabby Chic hair salon..... and finally decided on the Mesa Arts Center downtown.

Getting everyone ready is tricky.... Sophie definitely needs a nap and it would be helpful if Eric slept too. That worked out real well... NOT! Four girls is a lot of hair to do.... especially with almost waist length hair!! And oh ya..... I would like to do my hair too! Dad does the boys hair..... ooops..... Oh well...better luck next time!

Two hours, dozens of Sophie meltdowns, Eric being a clown with his finger continually up his nose, mom having a few stress meltdowns and more than 600 pictures later..... We were finished!

She even took pictures of John and I .... together and by ourselves!! Definately a first!

And we LOVE them!!!

THANK YOU APRIL! You are AWESOME!

I posted just a few.....