The Fine Art of Taking a Picture...

Today we took Tori and Linken into Sears to have professional pictures taken of them together. I just have to say to all of you that have a job taking pictures of kids, you more than earn your paycheck and about a million brownie points as well. The girl that helped us was so patient - especially when Tori kept crawling around, pulling herself up, and basically making her job a nightmare. And it probably didn't help that we all thought it was hilarious. The first set of pictures were taken in festive 4th of July attire. Linken was an angel, and Tori just didn't understand that she needed to stay on her tummy!!!

Again- Linken is perfect and Tori looks like she is going to get him!

Finally, Tori is actually smiling and looking at the camera. Love the look on Linken's face!!!

This picture turned out great - I wish we had been taking video at this point. As soon as we would put her on her back, she would flip over and then start crawling all over the place. It was pretty funny!

Then we had a wardrobe change and a much needed break for the kids. The initial idea was to get both of them in these really cute wicker chairs - if only Tori had cooperated!

And here is the resulting picture!

Grandma Allen is a genius and suggested we have Tori stand behind Linken's chair. We had much better results with this setup!!!

The photographer was a glutton for punishment and tried getting Tori on Linken on their backs again. Here's some video of the ensuing chaos...

Here is our big girl - you would never know it was such a struggle to get this picture! But it really was a fun outing none the less!!!

Thanks Grandma Allen for the pictures, they are perfect!!!