Getting pictures taken with 3 kids=Exhuastion

Last Friday I got my kids' pictures taken at Picture People. I have never attempted to get a professional picture of all 3 kids. I've been meaning to for a whole year but somehow it's always been on the back burner and therefore it never got done!

Let me just say that I do not enjoy taking my kids to get their pictures taken. It is absolutely exhausting. That is why it's been 1 1/2 years since A & T had gotten theirs taken. But I had to suck it up and do this.

So I got to Picture People and memories of why I hate this so much came flooding back. Alyssa would not do anything the photographer told her to do...Trevor did great at the individual shots but would not hold in position for more than 2 seconds during the group shot. Kylie was a typical 1 year old and crawled away the second I walked away. It was EXHAUSTING. I think all mothers know what I'm talking about.

I am very impatient when my kids are being photographed. It's like, Please, just for ONCE in your life, stay still for 5 seconds in the position she puts you in, PLEASE!!! I'll do anything! Just Pleeeease!! And I turn in to this completely desperate person. I think of saying things like, "I'll go buy you anything you want at Toys R Us after this if you just hold still and let her get this picture." But then I realize how desperate that sounds and don't want the photographer to think I spoil my kids and give them anything they want so I don't say it. (I seriously was so desperate, I almost said that)

Anyways, so then comes time to see the results. And this is where Picture People is soooooo smart. They bring out already printed pictures all in frames and everything. And they catch you when you're already soo emotional from the previous 30 minutes, and you've got to walk away with something good for all that work you just put forth. And you have the mind frame of, "I don't care how much it costs, it's worth it for what I just went through." And they actually got a pretty cute group shot...