David Sloan family 2012

Yesterday I shared individual pictures of the kids from our photo shoot last July, and today I am sharing some of the rest.  This is just a small percentage of what I have on my disc, and it was not easy choosing favorites, hence the excessive amount of pictures I am over-sharing today.  I promise you, though, there are still many more that we will just enjoy ourselves.  

For some reason, our oldest son, Davey, ended up with only one picture all by himself (shown in yesterday's post).  The photographer was extremely apologetic when we picked up the disc, explaining that he had planned to take more in a different setting and forgot.  Good thing the one he took was downright perfect!

Our prayer card picture was hard to choose.  We were deciding between this one {below} and the one we actually used.  We couldn't decide if we wanted to go for more of a fun look or something more serious.  We finally opted for serious since it was, after all, for our prayer card and not for our living room wall.

{Below} The picture we used for our prayer card and display table.  And want to be let in on a little secret?  I cropped David's face in this picture for the back of his book!

See there?  The quality on the book {in real life} is so good that it looks like an individual shot!  Yay for great photographers!

And speaking of great photographers, you will not believe that we paid the equivalent of $30 USD for all of these pictures (a 1-hour photo session) and the disc with 114 pictures on it.  No watermarks.  No copyright policies.  Done deal.  Yes, missionaries have to fork out the bucks when it comes to airline tickets, paperwork, etc..., but we do get our price breaks in other areas.  Our photographer already knows that he is our photographer from now on.  He took our pictures last year (you can see the family picture here or lots of shots on our Meet My Family page before they get updated) which were a huge improvement from the year before when we used to go to an indoor studio.  When you have multiple children, the friendliness of the outdoors is a much easier environment for gaining cooperation from every age group.  They are smiling anyway.

Someone has anonymously paid for our family pictures to be taken again while we are in California {thank you, anonymous!!! A parent can never have too many pictures of their growing children.} which is partly why I wanted to go ahead and get these pictures uploaded.  We will most likely get them done next month which will put us at 8 months between photo shoots.  Since both are/were outdoors, I think we'll enjoy the March weather much more than the 90-degree July weather we were trying so hard not to show on our faces the last time around.  Even though some pictures were not usable due to the strong winds that day {I'm sure you noticed flying hair in some of the pictures}, we were grateful we had it.

Thanks for taking the time to look today!