Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Say Cheese!

Back in October, we went to Virginia for my nephew, Michael's, first birthday. Once we got into town, Denise told us that her family was having their pictures taken by some friends of our family who happened to be in town for LU's homecoming. Are you followng this? They take GREAT pictures and so Dolly and I asked them if they would take our families' pictures spur of the moment, too. They agreed, even though they had a very busy weekend.

We were on after Denise's family. It was right at nap time and the whining had begun. I was a little nervous about the outcome of the pictures, but Luminosity (the photographers) came through for us!

19 years ago when my family moved into our new home, we had to hand water these trees that Daddy had planted with huge 10 gallon buckets. We HATED doing this, but Daddy would tell us about how in the years to come, we'd love these trees. How right he was! These oaks served as the backdrop to our pictures! Like I said, it was right during nap time (notice the happy smiles on Caroline and RoyBoy's faces):






I had this one printed in a huge size and it's going to be framed and put right smack, dab on our bedroom wall. Wooohoo! That's right.






Okay, since this is my blog, I'm going to brag. How cute are our kids?!

I wanted to cry because Roy Austin was a M-E-S-S this particular day and he would not sit still for any pictures. Denise's family did such a good job sitting still and posing and then when it was our turn...nothing. The kids wouldn't smile or look at the camera. Stephanie and Tammy just followed RoyBoy around and got such good candid shots! It was funny because they were literally running after or in front of him the entire time!

Click here for more of Luminosity's work. I'm trying to get them to stop by Charlotte one day soon for another more planned out shoot:)

10 comments:

Denise said...

Swwweeet. (said like a surfer dude) I am guessing you received your disk???

Jessica said...

I LOVE all of the pictures. I'm really jealous that you got such sweet pictures :) The colors are beautiful!

Dolly said...

I love how your pictures turned out. Luminosity really is the best! I LOVE the pic of you and ROy and glad you ordered that one. It will look nice in your bedroom. Whoohooooo!

Pam said...

Donna, thanks for posting these pictures - they are sooo good!!! I love that one of you and Roy - that's a great one. Beautiful oak trees in the background!!

Momofgirls said...

Love love love them all....and YES! Your kids are sosososososo cute!!!

Karen said...

The photos are fabulous! Adorable children--what a great-looking family. :o)

Laura said...

Awesome pictures!!! Such a handsome family! I love the story of "hand watering" those beautiful trees...kind of reminds me of raising children! We are "hand watering" them right now so they will grow up to be beautiful and strong...ok, cheesy "Mama moment" over! ;)

Unknown said...

DYN-O-MITE (Said like Willis on Different Strokes). All of these are GREAT....definite framers for the wall collage!

Rose said...

Beautiful, Beautiful pictures.

Elizabeth said...

I am catching up on your blog and its so fun! These are gorgeous pictures. If they ever do come to Charlotte, they'll have lots of appts! Beautiful family and beautful story of the backdrop.