Monday, April 11, 2011

"Say Cheese!"

Years ago, after numerous school portraits that were marginal at best, I decided to start taking the kids down to Target once a year to get their pictures taken. No offense to the photographers from Bell Inc...but when you are charged with taking pictures of over 700 kids within a few scant hours, well...as long as the kid looks somewhat decent and isn't closing his/her eyes the picture is counted as a success. "Next please!" That works okay for Brandon...but apparently my girls need a bit more coaxing to get a good shot.
The only downside to Target...I actually have to make the appointment and get the kids there as opposed to the photographers just showing up at the elementary school. Because of this, unfortunately, I'm a bit overdue...the last sitting was in January 2009.
The time off during spring break seemed to me to be a good time to rectify this procrastination issue. (Brandon didn't join us, having just had a photo shoot with his gym.)
Here are the results:

JULIANNE
LILIAN

REBEKAH

2 comments:

Shauna said...

So this comment has nothing to do with this post, but is some car seat info. The weight requirements kind of depend on your car seat and your booster seat. Our car seat is for kids up to 40 pounds and our booster seat is for kids 30-100 pounds. So although Matthew could stay in a car seat for awhile longer, he is just big enough for the booster seat. Check your instruction manual and it should tell you what the requirements are. As for how long they stay in a booster seat, about two years ago a law was passed stating that children must be in a booster seat until age eight or until they are are 57 inches tall. As tall as my two older boys are, neither one of them reached that height requirement before their eighth birthday. So Nathan is ridiculously huge to still be in the booster but the law says he must stay. Hope that helps. :-)

Mary said...

You have beautiful daughters Sarah! I love, love, love these pictures. They all turned out so good!