Let's Talk...

Let's talk about the REAL faces of Family Picutres...

These are just 4 of about 400 photos of Logan giving "stink eye". Turns out he couldn't smile because of his loose tooth....yep, loose tooth. In this photo, I'm nudging him in the back, and frank's threatening him through his teeth...happy, right? When threats didn't work, we tried bribary...Spaghetti Factory, rest of the day off school, even Lagoon! Stubbon kid - nothing worked.


So, Frank told Logan that he could pick mom or dad to take him on a quick walk...you can guess who he picked :) During our little heart to heart, I gently told him that if he couldn't smile, I would sell his wii on KSL to pay for the photo shoot that he ruined. Tears came flowing, and I told him "see...you can cry just fine with your loose tooth, just do that without the tears, and it'll be great!" Well, Carly's no dummy. She saw all this attention Logan was getting and decided she wanted a little for herself. So we got another couple hundred pictures with Carly like this...

Well, Carly doens't have a loose tooth, so what possible excuse should she have? The picture below is her explaining to us that the reason she wasn't smililng was because she DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO LAGOON! Seriously.

I won't lie - Chase was a pretty happy fella. Chase loves a good pose - that was the only issue (I'll take it!). All sorts of "broadway-esque" expressions. But overall, he was pretty easy...

Since faces were NOT working for us, we tried other more attractive features...

like our feet...

or LEGS...

We decided to give the kids a break by letting them play on the trains camera free (well...almost).

Meanwhile me and Frank had our own little private photo shoot - I know Frank's been looking forward to this for a long time ;) I even made it into a wedding announcement just to be funny!

Turns out a little playtime was just what the kids needed. Too bad that was like an hour and a half into the shoot! By then, me and Frank were D-O-N-E...

AHHHH...the joys of family picture day. Thanks Jodi for your PATIENCE! And for giving me all the out-takes. They make me smile :)