Family Pictures

Our neighbor graciously helped us out with taking some family pictures. It's not a simple task with two babies involved! Matthew picked this morning to take a nice, long nap right at the time we were going to take the pictures. Eventually we woke him up, but that's risky business -- he can be quite cranky if he gets up before he's ready. I don't have any idea where he gets that from! :) We were lucky because he only looked a bit sleepy in some of the pictures, instead of going into a four-alarm wail. James, on the other hand, had been awake and cheerful for quite a while, so he was just about ready for a nap when Mattie woke up!

And with the yucky weather outside, we only had indoor options for backgrounds, and even with moving the furniture around it wasn't quite ideal. (Having the vase behind us on the mantle probably wasn't the best choice, for instance, and we wished we had remembered to try a few without the flash so that we didn't have the glare off Georgia's glasses.)

In any case, we're quite pleased to have some photos with all of us in them. (I think we have maybe six or seven photos that have both of us and the twins, and half of those are in the hospital!) However, now we know why the pros make the big bucks!


P.S. Mike is jealous today of our neighbors to the north (by which I mean DC, not Canada) for their 20+ inches of snow! The pictures of it are awesome, but I'm glad I don't have to do that shoveling!