While Dan's mom was here visiting last time she asked us to send her some pictures of the kids for a new picture display of the grand kids that she got specially made. It was something that I thought we could do right away but then I wanted to send her some nice pictures of the kids taken by me of course since I absolutely HATE over paying for studio pictures. So a few weeks went by and I knew it was only a matter of time before the subject was going to be brought up again... it did. So I was faced with getting it done before I wanted to and with not much preparation but my lovely husband agreed to take us out to my most favorite place for pictures around here (The Botanical Gardens in Spring). Ever since I found that place close to 3 years ago it became the perfect place for pictures, they have lots of pretty flowers, trees, a couple of bridges and more flowers, Dan's favorite thing is to walk all the way down to the Japanese Tea Garden and that is where we usually take our pictures. It had been so hot for so long that we could not had done it earlier anyways but on Saturday morning it was really nice and we did not melt as much. So the kids did their best and we took just over 100 pictures so we could have plenty to choose from. Kahlan was the hardest, being the baby we need to wait for her to be in the right mood for pictures, we only had two windows of opportunity to get hers done and that was it. We had some fake smiles but for the most part they did great.
After taking the pics I sat in front of the computer editing my pictures to make them look the way I wanted and sent them to get printed at Walmart... as much as I hate to admit it, Walmart really is a pain the rear end. They completely messed up my order by not even printing it, it was supposed to be a quick one hour thing but when I got there they didn't even had people there. I had to hunt somebody down and then he had no clue where they were until he realized the pictures were not printed. He finally went to look for the person in charge but she never came out to talk to me and simply said that they were going to close soon and to come back the next day (Sunday). I went back Monday morning and the very "nice" lady at the counter found my pictures except for my 8x10 collage I had ordered... I was already prepared to fight them for the pics not being ready on Saturday so when she rang me up I told her there was no way I was paying $25.00 for that order, specially since it was missing part of it. She was rude and not very nice but in the end she realized that it was their fault and she brought it back down to what a three day service is. But of course in my life things never go the right way and the pictures did not work at all. So today I sent another order to a different Walmart thinking that it would be fine. When I got there the pictures were not ready... seriously???
So I waited for over an hour to get my two prints that I needed, I was joined by 5 other people with the same problem and we all were not very happy at all. Finally some guy who knew what to do finally showed up and pressed the right button and out came the other half of my order. Anyways we finally have what we needed and now I can cut them to size and send them to my MIL so she can put them on display.
On a side note the lady from Monday told me that I needed to show her the copy right to my pictures and said she was not going to give them to me because they were taken by a professional photographer. I was so mad at that time but Dan told me that I should take that as a compliment instead... I guess he is right.
So here are the cute pictures of my kids that we will be sending to grandma and also Dan will have a collage to take to work so he can show off his beautiful kids.
This was one of the first pictures I took, both my girls smiled great for me.
Then Kahlan got in a funky mood. No wait, this is what she usually looks like at home.
My boys were more into it at first.
This is the official Victor pic. He always knows how to smile for me.
This is the official Kahlan pic.
This one is here just because even though she is not smiling, still is able to look cute and you can see her big eyes.
This is Shayna's official picture, she was not in the mood for posing or smiling for me, this is the best we could do.
The official picture for Tristan... so handsome.
This is my absolutely most favorite picture of the day and this is the official pic for grandma.
But just for fun again, here is another tough contender. He is a handsome white boy.
And all the kids trying to smile but not very happy.
My cute girly, she was all smiles in the end but I was not able to find the right setting for my camera, it still turned out cute.
And when we were done the kids requested to go walking in the bamboo jungle, Aaron cracks me up!
I named this picture "Sister Love", but seriously there were a serious of pictures that show you what Kahlan was really after, Shayna's headband.
More love.
And on the way back Shayna managed to push Victor down to the ground and get him hurt, so we made them kiss and hug each other a bunch of times, I promised her I would post this picture here.
I like this picture because she was actually smiling for real, the wind came and made her hair all messy but I love her face, she is still my princesita!
Since this is my blog I am allowed to brag here, do I have cute kids or what?
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