Family Picture

Tonight Josh, Coen, and I went to Proex to have our family picture and Coen's 1 year portrait taken. It was a disaster. Well not a horrible horrible disaster but still not very good. Coen refused to smile. She tried everything, elmo, a ball, blocks, tools, a frog that croaked, peekaboo, sneezing, tickling, growling, etc. Still no smile. She was very insistent on the smile. I wish I would have just asked her to take a few pictures with him just looking forward, that probably would have been better then the half smiling goofy looking anywhere but the camera faces that we ended up with. And Proex is pretty expensive to just have so so pictures. Josh and I have definitely taken better pictures of Coen ourselves. We probably would have done his one year portrait ourselves too, but we wanted a family picture and that's really hard to do.

There is definitely some talk of us investing in some backgrounds and maybe some better light sources so we can attempt to do some pictures on our own. I love taking pictures, especially of people, and really especially of my own kid.

I get to pick up our pictures on Sunday. Despite the sitting not going fabulously we ended up with a couple of cute pictures which led to a lot of money spent on prints. So there will be some wallets for anyone who wants one and some 5x7s for the godparents and grandparents.