Merry Christmas Bartolos

So I was kind of late taking Christmas pictures this year and I only had one family of takers. Anyway these are Allison's kids and I thought you might be interested in seeing what they look like like now-a-days. She jokes a lot about how each one has a lighter complexion and if she had anymore kids they would be absolutely white and look just like her family and not at all like Trini's. Anyhow they were super easy to take pictures because even though they don't smile much and the oldest refused to dress up, they at least stay in one spot, unlike my children who love attention in all forms but picture taking.

seriously, why is the one kid not looking at the camera the oldest?

Give Thanks for Your Family

Over the Thanksgiving holiday some of the family asked if I would take some pictures for them. I thought they wanted pictures of the kids for Christmas cards. Silly me they wanted family portraits which solved many problems because it looked just like spring outside. It was rough getting everyone together - in clean clothes too, but I think the end results speak for themselves. Haha. I've never done casual family pictures before but it was fun. Good thing the ranch offers so many good locations for portraits - no they're not green screens even though they almost look like they could be.

Senior Pictures

So Back in October I took some fall senior pictures for Chelsey. Anyway I never got around to posting them because #1 I am lazy and #2 I have kids. These are all taken at Rancho San Rafel Park and they turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. These are a few of my favorites, also sometimes when she smiles, she's the spitting image of her mother. Good thing she has a cute mom...

Happy Halloween

Here's a couple of shots of the kids costumes. Natty is a ballerina of course, but no the bandage isn't part of her costume. She burned her hand pretty bad of the wood stove and then the blisters popped. It's healing very well so if it wasn't for the pictures there wouldn't be any proof we ever let her get that close to a fire... Greg and I made the Thomas costume out of old boxes, glue, caulk (if you can believe it), craft foam, and a lot of paint. It was pretty popular and all the little kids wanted to see and touch it. Poor Doug...he's not a people person and it was pretty traumatic. He had to leave the church party because all the attention made him trow-up. No joke. All in all I guess you could say my kids love Halloween, dressing-up and having there pictures taken. Okay, you're right, Natalie loves it.