Saturday, June 16, 2012

One Year Portraits

We went to Olan Mills on Thursday to get Tommy and Ellie's one-year portraits made.  Unfortunately, I forgot to get an agreement from my children that they approved of this project.

Tommy, who is usually all smiles for a camera, just wasn't that into it.
When Tom saw this, he called him the poster boy for depression.
  
     

Ellie is usually the one we are trying to coax smiles from, but she started out full of them...

   


We took a break for lunch and came back to try again. We got a few smiles from Tommy
(note that he is happy that he is allowed to hold a package of Wet Ones)... 
  
 
but now we were well into nap time and Ellie wasn't in the mood.
   



We never did get a good one of the two of them together...

Ma & Paw...

 Tommy got the Wet Ones away from Ellie...
 

   


So when we got home I pulled a blanket over the tv cabinet to set up my own "studio", and tried again.  After several rounds of them pulling off hats, crawling to me, and being reset in position, I captured these...






Too tired that night to put my blanket away, I decided to try again the next morning...



 




 

and then they were really, really done...

and Mama let them win... 



5 comments:

  1. Ok, this made me laugh all the way through the pics. Holy Cow..that first one of Tommy is priceless. I think he'd love to hit someone with that rattle and maybe it's the hats they weren't into? The one you took of the two of them with Tommy pulling off Ellie's hat is so cute. I still can't believe they are 1 already. Happy Father's Day to Tom!

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    1. Believe it or not, they actually liked the hats and were excited to wear them!

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  2. Tom and Vicki, thanks for sharing the email with the links. It is great to see your children and to know how well your family is doing.

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  3. Oh you are so patient and they are so so beautiful. Gayle

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  4. too bad they had their own opinion on the pics, but those are took cute to care!

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