Family Pictures 2013

I participated in an Influencer Program on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for OshKosh B’gosh. I received a gift card to facilitate my shopping trip and to thank me for participating.

It’s that time of year, when I have to start thinking about sending out Holiday cards, and also the one time a year I am allowed to even mention the phrase “Family Pictures”. You would think that it was a swear word to Sean. So long ago, we made a compromise that we can do family photos 1 time a year. Unless we just had a child, we usually plan them for just before sending out Holiday cards so they are recent (ya know, cause I never post photos of my family on social media for people to see!) But I swear this year I am still in a funk after moving down south. With being away from all photographers I know, and any locations we have shot at before, I definitely was hesitant for photos this year.

I went about them in a different way this time. I took the kids to OshKosh B’gosh and told them we were going to have family pictures taken and they needed new outfits for them. I then let each of them pick their own clothes. This is normally something I would never even think of doing, but I really knew that no matter what they chose it would be darling because there wasn’t anything in that store I wouldn’t be happy with!

Aren’t their outfit choices cute!! We ended up coming home with a TON of clothes! Between their awesome prices, coupons (like this 25% off a $30 purchase) and the awesome rewards I got amazing deals for all the clothes! I’ve determined that they have inherited my fashion sense; and they may be even better at it from time to time!

The fun clothes that they picked for pictures are such a great representation of their personalities. Gracie is about everything PINK and with mixing patterns. And Will has a collection of train shirts that would amaze any 4 year old, but this one has Santa!! So of course we have had to wear it multiple times already, and had to do a quick wash before pictures.

We didn’t have a photographer this year, so the group photos were taken with a timer on the tripod, but I think that they still turned out really good.

Of course, not every photo was great…..and we had to be humorous from time to time.

I definitely love this family of mine….and it’s a good thing that those kids are so cute so that I don’t trade them from time to time!

Now the next big decision, what photos to use for our holiday card?