Family Pictures - August 2014

I have really tried to make it a ritual since Avery was born to be good about taking family pictures! I was kind of relaxed about the whole thing before and had never once paid for a family portrait. But once Avery was born I was like, "Alright, our family is complete… let's start doing this for real."

So, the only problem is, I am still a cheap girl at heart. I hate paying an arm and a leg for pictures. Two years ago (the first time I paid someone) I had this college girl do it who charged $100 for an hour shoot and gave us a cd with about 40 images on it. I thought that was a little high, but still ok since she was pretty good. Then the next year (2013) she upped her price to $150 and said she lowered the number of images to only 20. I was like, "No thank you." So I had our friend, Stacey, just take some. This year, I found a girl through a friend of a friend and she only charged $50 and gave us a cd with about 40 images on it. Just right! ;) Although I do wish there would have been some more options for the family pictures of us all together, Avery was being a monster so it was hard to even get one good one. I will post those at the end, but first, a quick walk down memory lane….

{ Fall 2010 - thanks, Gini! }

{ Christmas 2011- thanks, Diane! }

{ Fall 2012 - the first professional ones… }

{ Fall 2013 - thanks, Stacey! }

And finally! Here are some of our pictures this year! { August 2014 - Katy Montross Photography }
My kids were being monsters so it's a miracle we even got a few good ones...