Sunday Morning Photo Shoot

Shoot #1: Aaron, Candi, and Diego (22 takes)
Shoot #2: Gabs & Momo (31 takes)

Shoot #3: Candi, Aaron, Edi, Diego, Gabs, and Mom a.k.a The Whole Crew

(150 takes)

Okay, slight exaggeration on the number of photos snapped with my camera, but I went through a strong phase of deja vu last Sunday morning, trying to get photos of the kids in their Sunday outfits.

I remember standing outside of our house many, many Sunday mornings while Mom or one of the resident guests tried to take THE FAMILY PICTURE or THE CHRISTMAS PICTURE, while the sun burned down onto us making us scratch and twitch, sweat trickled from under the "perfectly" done hair, and we all tried to keep our eyes open at the same time and our mouths smiling even though Chelsie had just stepped on my heel, I had smacked her, and Tifani dug her nails into both of us. In fact, most of the time I would deem (and did deem) our family pictures one word... horrific.

So, as I say, I was laughing at myself while I tried to get the kids to smile, and eventually decided that the best shots of kids are not necessarily ones in which they're smiling... but rather when they're acting like the little tykes they are. And maybe you wouldn't want to send out Christmas photos of Eduardo ripping out Candi's hair by the roots after she steals his sandal... but then again, if you have my sense of humor, maybe you would... ;)

At least with a digital camera I won't have to develop all the different takes - failures and successes. Then again, it was always a laugh to look at the fifty pictures Mom stacked on top of one another in our family photo albums of what I then thought to be the EXACT SAME PICTURE.

Mother, dear... I now know better!