Fall Family Pictures

So for a long time now I have wanted to get some really great family pictures. Last April Blake and I bought a nice camera so that we could do a lot of our own picture taking. It has worked out well for the most part, especially with the kids. This year (as in 2011) I really really wanted it to be the year that we got a family picture on the wall. If fact, for the past three years at least I have had the perfect space in our living room for a family picture, and it remains blank because we have yet to get one that we want to blow up that big!! We have had so many attempts at family pictures... none of them turning out well. I think it may be because we try to do the easy/cheap route... or maybe try too hard for a good picture and then we just end up being disappointed! Well... this year proved to be no different! We went a bought a remote for our camera so that we didn't have to bring anyone up with us... thinking we could take on the task of posing ourselves, etc. Well somehow, despite blake spending, I swear, 15 minutes at a time behind the camera for one shot and trying to make sure everything was perfect, we still got unfocused pictures! The worst part about it was Maylee was being a buster that day so the ones that are in focus, she is pouting or doing something silly, and then the good ones that I would love to hang up are out of focus! Go figure! Just our luck!
But enough time has passed now where I can laugh about it and actually enjoy looking through them and seeing the comical relief in them! So here is a little glimpse of us trying to take our own pictures!! (p.s. I THINK we have learned our lesson!)