26 of ten

Prologue: In my attempt to be more organized in 2012, I began practicing for some Christmas card shots this week. Yeah that's right. In September. Remember my 2011 Chirstmas card faux pas (trying to put THIS on a single card)? That little design misstep resulted in me having to send out the photoless Christmas card of shame, so I figured a good three month head start only made sense. Livia was still a bit under the weather, so we shipped her off to grandma and papa's house and decided to start with the two most cooperative subjects.

But only a few minutes into the session I got a good sense of how the evening was going to go.


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So hubby and I decided to divide and conquer (extracting little brother from the scene) and do one subject at a time. An excellent idea in theory.

Uh-oh! Someone spots little bubby behind the camera.

Seriously not working. (This is what happens when brothers are also best friends).

But the evening wasn't a total loss. I got some shots of Collin that thrill me to my little core. What you are about to see here is a LOT OF PHOTOS. It would be a lot easier for you the viewer if I had split the photos into separate posts. Or at the very least put some in collages. But in an effort to make my life easier, I'm just going to post them all at once and be on my way.

Also: I do not mess with skin tones. Whatever they are they are. All this magenta, green, yellow, blue stuff baffles me. You might just see every color of the rainbow, and that's just the way it be! ;-)

Now for 26 pictures of my ten year old.


















































Whew! You made it! Thanks for looking & happy Thursday! xo