It all turned out in the end

I had some coupons to a commercial photography studio that I couldn’t pass up because, well, I’m poor and can’t afford to go the non cheap route.  The boys needed their 3 month pictures taken by someone who could actually take good, cute pictures (which is NOT me). So off I went. On my own. It was about 45 minutes away so I had to plan the boys feeding time, nap time, and happy time to coordinate with their appointment.  This is next to impossible to do with two children, but I managed it somehow. When I got to the studio, the receptionist sat with me to discuss the boys outfits, background colors, etc. She suggested a few things and I went with it thinking that she was the professional and would know what’s best for this kind of thing. Wrong-O! I took the boys in, and about 10 minutes later the photographer said she was done. Wait, what!? You’re done already? With two boys? Two three month olds? I couldn’t quite see all of the pictures she had taken or see how the boys looked because I was busy hiding behind the scenery to hold the boys up.  And I was busy throwing the babies here and there depending on where she told me to put them. It was all such a whirlwind of events, I was sweating by the time it was over…10 minutes. I then looked at the pictures. Eh, nothing I was crazy about but I thought it was maybe the frustrations and craziness of the event so I picked out the best poses and headed out…only to immediately regret buying ANY of the pictures. I lost sleep over it all that night. The more I thought about those pictures, the more I hated them. When the boys had their pictures together, they were squished together, falling into each other and it looked like one of them was missing an arm. They smiled during their shoot, only the photographer missed most of them…and their shirts were bunchy. Had I had a better camera, I could have taken those pictures just as well. Maybe I was being too picky?  Anyways, I decided I had to do a re-do or cancel my order. I called them up and asked if I could do a re-do. They were super nice about it all (and the manager even agreed that the background color that was used in my pictures isn’t usually used on such small babies unless it’s a holiday picture. And the background was a huge reason why I didn’t like the pictures). So back I went, this time with my parents in tow. The photographer we had was SOOOOO much better. He spent more than 10 minutes taking pictures and would fix all the little things to make the pictures look better. He did some cute poses and had some cute noises to get their attention. At least I think so. Here are some pictures that show what we ended up with (not exactly because the pictures shown below are “enhanced” photos that contain a montage of some of the pictures. We just bought each individual picture. And we chose different versions of some of the poses below).  If you saw what I originally had, you would be amazed at the difference!