the shoemaker's kids have no shoes...

As you all know, we are professional photographers (see our professional blog site by clicking HERE).... yet this blog is full of non-professional snapshots of our kids. Why??? Well, because just as "the shoemaker's kids have no shoes".... the photographer's kids have no pictures! I always laugh when people say "Oh, you have two kids---you must have sooo many photos of them!" Well, if you hadn't noticed by the blank walls in our 6-year old house, we don't get around to taking professional photos of our kids often! We are trying to work on it because we really do love having photos of them and really do want our walls filled, but... our clients always come first and there never seems to be enough time left over to prepare, photograph, edit, retouch, and order photos for ourselves.

So, we are going to work on it. In fact, we are going to "schedule" a 1-year photo session of our 14-month old daughter as soon as we get back from our trip! But, just for laughs, I included a few photos from my point-n-shoot of the other reason we don't get around to photographing our kids often. They are the "worst clients" ever! :) I say that with a laugh, as they always seem to be running in the opposite direction when we aim the camera toward them (professional or not). On this particular occasion they all cooperated to have a photo with daddy, and this is what we got...



Hope that made you laugh! :) Oh well, I am really glad that I gave up my pride of having perfect photos of my children shown 100% of the time and just got this cheap-o camera for this blog journal, which will be saved and printed in a book for my kids to have when they are grown. Otherwise, they might not have had ANY memories captured of their childhood! :)

Hold me to my word though..... professional photos coming of our family this spring..... :)