Family photo misery

This is how the whole business can go bad... FIVE kids, one over the limit for stress free portraits. If you will please note the simply priceless looks on our faces! Everyone was either fried or mad. It was hot, "H_LL NO we are not stopping at McDonalds first... what you want MIMI to think we raised PIGS with all the ketchup". Plus, all the frillies, ties, jackets, shoes, dresses (ad nauseum) cost a bloody fortune!

My source of joy; my family

This picture is a few years old now... it does represent an evolution, we learned the hard way that the "critical mass" of kids for "miserable disaster" involving "formal" (ie coats, ties, dresses, new shoes etc) family photo's was FOUR!

The grunge look was just right. You will note the "free t-shirts" on the adults! My youngest daughter Hope could not find her shoes! (so what... that IS our Hopie). The photographer could not get over, "what a fun family, I have never had people who had FUN in the studio". But OH if she could have only seen the LAST one!!