18 (20) Month & family professional pictures

It's been a while since we had professional shots of our crew, so I decided it was time for some more. I was aiming at 18 months but, I'm a little behind... A few weeks ago I scheduled a session with my SIL, Jill. Check out her website here and her blog here to see her work. She always does a great job if you are ever in need of a photographer.

We had to jump through many hoops to make this photo shoot happen on our end. Craig's work issued a service emergency due to all the rain we've gotten over the past week or so. So, basically he is forced to work 7 days a week, 10 hour minimum days until further notice. This however, isn't much different than any normal week. Anyway, we had to have my photographer (SIL, Jill) send them an email stating we had already booked the session... and all that mumbo jumbo... blah blah blah... in order for them to allow Craig off a few hours for a photo shoot. And he got the pleasure of having to return to work at 5:30, working another 3 hours, after the session, to get his 10 hour quota in for the day. Fun stuff! I know, I know... I should stop complaining and be happy that he has a job... I just wonder when do we get to have a life and take care of responsibilities at home like mow our lawn?? The backyard grass is probably about a foot tall in places because of all the rain and work and school, we literally have no time to mow it. Okay, on to the good stuff, my little rant is over...

We sat up shop first at home and we weren't having much luck... Hannah just wanted to keep running off the set being silly and the other two weren't too happy about having their picture taken. Then, we pulled out the bubbles and the chair and it was like magic! Ah... happiness and smiles! You wouldn't believe the work that goes into trying to make three babies smile and be happy at once! We were all sweating bullets running and dancing around!

The collages may be small so try clicking on them to enlarge them so you can see them better. Hannah started having a finger-sucking moment at home... not sure why, she couldn't have been tired. Don't you just love those curls???

Tyler my big, sweet boy! He looks so grown up here, it just makes me want to cry! And boy does he love his tiger.

Whitney really is a happy baby. She is so sweet and happy most of the time but when she doesn't want to do something, it is almost next to impossible to convince her otherwise.

Then, we headed to downtown McKinney and got some great shots in a nice historical district. We wanted to take a few shots outside in their winter attire before changing outfits, but man oh man was it hot! The kids were getting red in the face, Craig and I were wiping and blotting sweat off our faces and my hair was getting curlier and curlier by the minute! Ha! Notice the wavy bangs!

Anyway... We got a couple really cute individuals of Hannah and Tyler in front of this yellow house but Whitney wanted no part of it, so you won't see one of her. LOVE LOVE LOVE this one of Hannah!

I think Mommy and Tyler are laughing at crazy Uncle Kevin (my brother). He can be so silly at times... He even did push ups once to try and make them laugh.

This one got out of order when I loaded them onto blogger. This was in the beginning during the not so happy time - pre-bubbles and pre-chair prop.

Here's the chair! Oh the magic the chair brings.

I liked the way this one turned out even though we aren't smiling.

And last but certainly not least, Tyler's laughing smile. Don't you just want to eat him up?