Let me give you a little background of how these pictures came to be. When my mother in law got here I was still a little sick from Christmas and was not feeling very well. Kat my mother in law kept asking and asking for pictures and I knew that she wanted one but I did not want to take one while I was feeling so awful. She was perfectly content to have one with all of us in our pajamas without hair brushed, I was not.
The last day that she was here I got up got dressed and got ready for pictures. I got out my tripod and set up the camera I was going to be so cool using my timer I would set the timer and then join the picture...this did not work out so well.
First I used the kids as focal points and took a few of just them so I could get an idea of where we would all be sitting. Then everyone sat down and I set the timer, of course the dogs wanted to be in the picture too! The kids wanted to keep the dogs in the picture. I thought to myself no problem they are a part of our family it will be fine.
I set the timer and ran over to sit down, then I realized I must not have set the timer correctly so I got back up double checked everything set the timer again and ran over to sit down....success the picture took! I walked over to see the results only to find that I want not in the picture at all! FUDGE BROWNIES! (as Aurora would say) Of course my mother in law thought it was a great picture....my first thought was thanks a lot Kat I am so glad that you think the picture is great with me cut out of it.
We tried one more picture with the timer and reset the zoom so that I would be included in the picture and truthfully I look as though I was photo shopped in or like I am the crazy family member that the entire family avoids and I could easily be cut out later.
Just then my next door neighbor went running past my front window she was chasing her puppy Schatzie who had escaped and was trying to get over to my house to play. I went outside and asked Nancy if she would mind taking a picture of us as it would be so much easier and she said of course.
I made my mother in law move so that I could be next to my husband and Nancy took the picture. Nancy snapped the picture right as Kat was moving and it looks as though she may have been punching me. We finally got a few decent pictures. I am going to post most of them so you all can see when I am talking about.
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| Taking a few pictures before we started with the whole family so I could see what I needed to move. |
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| Testing out she space before we started...as you can see there should have been enough space for me when I was ready. |
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| Taking a generation picture. 3 generations Leif Kat Leif and Aurora and my dog Bella |
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| This is the picture that makes me mad...yes I was supposed to be in it but clearly there must not have been enough room for me! As I was cut out! |
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| I made it into the picture and I look like I don't belong! |
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| Mommies Cutie pies! |
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| My Favorite picture of the 4 of us! |
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| I think Leif deleted all of the other pictures that were taken of the 5 of us because this is the only one I have left! |
