August 10, 2010

Reunion Recap #8: Family Photo


Lessons learned from taking family photos:

1. When thirty-five people are involved, the chances of everybody looking good in the photo are slim.

2. When twenty of the thirty-five people are children, the chances of everybody looking good are zero.

3. The chances of catching a kid picking his nose are one in twenty.

4. When you take the picture in the morning to get good shade, you will also get at least three crusty looks from tired kids.

5. When you insist on everybody wearing their reunion t-shirt, there will be at least one fashionably-conscious objector.

6. When you are the photographer, and you've set your camera on self-timer, on a table-top tripod resting on a high chair, you will run like a mad woman to get in the picture and then forget to take your baby's pacifier out of his mouth.

7. When all else fails, you will pick the picture that has all of the moms looking good, no matter what the dads and children look like. Amen.

6 comments:

chelsea said...

Did you purposely put it so we can't enlarge it? hehe. It looks good!! I look forward to our family picture this week minus my favorite brother in law!!

The Dragonfly said...

No, Chels, not on purpose . . . my computer and Blogger have been giving me fits for the past few days - I'm trying to fix it.

Suzanne C said...

Love the recap! And so true about the moms looking good!

Apis Melliflora said...

Good rules. Cute hair. You look great and so do all those other little people.

Sue said...

OK, so I want to see a close-up of the t-shirts and some details about your design.

Amy Lynne said...

Sounds like our family pictures!