We were going to take these a few weeks ago but then Alex broke his arm and as unimportant as this sounds...he didn't have any clothes to wear except for his brother's t-shirts! I wanted a new picture for the frame in our living room and knew we needed to do these sooner rather than later so I splurged and bought him a new sweater at Target that could stretch over his cast...and then a new shirt and scarf for me. $40 on clothes and taking our own pictures is a lot cheaper than $100 for a photographer...at least that's what I told Robert :) It's kind of disgusting to think that I paid that much for those clothes though considering I could have found something comparable at Goodwill for a quarter of the price! But time was of the essence since I had put off getting our clothes ready until two hours before we were meeting a friend at the park for pictures. They took our pictures and we took theirs. It worked out great!
Thank goodness for photoshop! out of the 20 or so pictures of this one pose there wasn't a single one with BOTH boys looking at the camera so I was able to splice two of them together. If you look closely at this one you can see that I need to fix my elbow!
I thought that letting Andrew bring Chupacabra along would help him be cooperative. It kind of worked :)
tender, right sandee? :) At this point Andrew peed his pants and was starting to take them off! It was freezing cold, he was soaked and I didn't have an extra pair for him.
notice Alex's pants are unbuttoned. I think him wearing Andrew's "slims" isn't going to work. that kid needs "husky"!
Alex didn't want anyone to hold his hands and Andrew kept reminding us that he was wet lol photoshoot done!
haha Robert called this his my-mom-is-Jill face. whatever that was supposed to mean :)
"cheee my-pants-are-wet-and-I-want-to-go-home-eeese!"
We snapped a couple more when we got home (and changed roo out of his wet pants) just to make sure we had one with all four of us looking at the camera. you know, because it's not everyday that all four of us are bathed and dressed in clean clothes. and that's the honest truth!!
I think this out take is my favorite!
After half a bag of marshmallows, being bundled up in blankets, and ordering dominoes pizza, they had forgiven their parents for one hour of torture fun!
