We had family pictures taken yesterday morning… and I would have blogged about it yesterday, but the picture-taking process completely drained me. I am so excited though because it was the first time we had ever gotten family pictures taken. In our whole nine years of marriage. Sure, I’ve taken the kids to Kiddie Kandids a few times and had theirs done; and sure, we had some fellow tourist take a picture of the four of us standing in front of the Mickey Mouse flower beds in front of Disneyland; and Jon did a mean job of doing a Christmas picture last year with the tripod all set up in the entry way while we perched ourselves precariously on the piano bench… But yesterday was the first time the four of us all walked into a real picture studio and sat down together and had a bona fide family photo taken.

The kids did well, considering… We bribed them with lunch at Red Robin if they sat still and smiled nicely. Jachin was worried that he didn’t brush well enough before we left the house to warrant a huge, cheesy grin. But the photographer’s assistant got a few out of him with the help of a chipmunk puppet (which Jon thought was a badger puppet, and that made me laugh). I felt myself blink about 20 times, but the photographer took about 100 pictures. So — fingers crossed — at least a few of them turned out.

And while we were there and looking spiffy, Jon and I had a few taken of just us. With any luck, we’ll finally have something to hang on the huge, empty wall over our bed.

2 Comments »

1. Yay, a family picture. That’s something that we need to do too.

   Comment by Sam — November 30, 2007 @ 1:08 pm

2. We’ve only had one family picture taken so far. We’ll need to update once the new baby comes. As for professional photos of just Dave and I together? There are none. I’d sure like to have some, though. I hope you’ll post a picture or two once you get them!

   Comment by Leslie — December 2, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

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