Thursday, February 7, 2013

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!

20 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures!! We were happy to receive your book, yesterday!! =)
    love in Him,
    Steph

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  2. What a beautiful family God has blessed you with. I enjoyed all the pictures.

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  3. What a great photographer!

    Great Pictures.

    Beautiful Family.
    (I especially love the one of all of you walking together. I wish I could get a professional session done! I'll have to settle for a living-room pose for now.)

    Love,
    Anna

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  4. Great photographer!

    Great pictures!

    Beautiful family!
    (I especially love the one of you walking together. I'd love to have a professional session for our family. For now, I'll settle for a livingroom pose together...putting our camera on "automatic" and running to our spot before the 10 seconds are up!!!)

    Love,
    Anna

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  5. Beautiful pictures of a beautiful family :)!!!
    Thank you for sharing them with all of us.
    Would love a prayer card!
    Are you still in the states?

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    1. Send me your address, and I'll happily send you a prayer card!

      Yes, we are still in the states - in California.

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  6. Very beautiful once again!

    (Just heard from Sarah - Stephanie and Max are HOME! Praise Jesus!)

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  7. What a precious family. (not to mention beautiful and handsome!) Wow! The kiddo's have really grown! Thank you so much for sharing the pictures.
    Always love hearing from you!
    Much love,
    ~Mrs. May~

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  8. Beautiful pictures of a beautiful family!!! May the Lord bless and keep you safe in His care! Love, Susie

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  9. The pictures are great.... I can hardly wait to see how much they have grown...
    Praying that God has opened many hearts to pray and support you all as you get ready to go back home...
    Mrs. Nell

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  10. What a sweet picture!!

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  11. Beautiful! I am so happy for your wonderful little family, Jolene! Love you dear friend!

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  12. Absolutely beautiful pictures! I love the one of you and Brianna...and so many more! He really captured personalities so well!

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  13. Beautiful pictures.

    Beautiful family.

    Beautiful you....especially love the ones with your littlest guy and your precious girl.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  14. WHAT A GOOD LOOKING FAMILY. YOU SURE HAVE SOME CUTE KIDS. BEWARE...BEFORE LONG THEY'LL BE IN HIGH SCHOOL...COLLEGE...THEN MARRIED AND MOVED OFF...THEY REALLY GROW FAST. LOVE YALL.

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  15. Simply beautiful...every one of them! Love you all!

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  16. Thank you sooo much for sharing these pics, beautiful.

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  17. Beautiful family!!! Love the photo of you and your daughter, adorable.

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  18. Wonderful pictures! Am always praying for your family!

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  19. Thank you so much for sharing these photos!!! Such great shots! :)

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Thank you for your encouraging comments! "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." Proverbs 25:25