Photo Shoot

As I do every year I had the kids pictures done professionally.  We went to The Picture People as we have for the last 3 years.  I have to say though I found some pictures to hang in the house; I was NOT happy with the photographer!  I won't get into details because I feel as though if I explain it I just sound like a whiny, complaining mom, which really I promise I am not.  BUT my experience with her was not good.  Whats WORSE is that I requested her!  The first time we had her she was amazing.  She was patient and fun.  We requested her last year but when we went in to have their pictures done she was out.  So this year when I went in to book the appointment and I saw her I was so excited!

I don't know. Maybe she had a rough morning.  Maybe she has something crazy going on in her life.  I'm not sure. All I can really say is that I will NOT request her again.  I won't give up on the company because I get a lot of great pictures taken and I get to bring them home the same day; and with the coupons I get- the prices aren't usually so bad. I have had 3 great experiences with them =)  I am really trying to not make one negative experience taint my vision of them forever.

To prove I am not an unreasonable customer I totally get that toddlers are tough to work with.  I even understand I may not get the pictures I really want because one of them may be moody or shy (like the ones of them together).  Which is why I make every effort to make sure we go at an hour when the kids are usually always happy and bright, and I do all I can to ensure their moods are GREAT.  Oh well...I digress, and I am getting mad thinking about my experience....DARN PHOTOGRAPHER! 

Anyways.....

Kyle was shy at first and then he really played it up for the camera.  There were so many amazing pictures of him it was really hard to choose.

I HAD to get the one of him beating on the drum....its SO HIM!

Hailey wasn't herself.  She was timid and shy.  Normally she would take the lead and be the happy-go-lucky kid.  Or in the very least follow Kyle's lead and have fun. But not that day.

Though the options for her were limited and I didn't love the doll they were still cute.  AND the doll does suit her.  She LOVES her baby dolls =)

I was hoping for a GREAT one of the two of them together.....

and though the photographer didn't help the situation the ones she did capture were kinda cute and captured them in a new way =)

So there they are. Our 2011 pictures for Kyle and Hailey.

Despite a negative experience I love their pics. 

You'll have 1 more chance PICTURE PEOPLE! =)