2012 Family Photos

A couple of weeks ago, we had family photos taken. Nora was a little difficult to work with, I must say--but most 2-year-olds are. We bribed her with fruit snacks (something we have actually never given her before) and that was at least partially successful. Otherwise, it was a lot of distracting and tickling and tricks to get her to smile on our part, and, well, miracle-working on our photographer's part.

Photography is obviously an important part of my life. But even I will admit to making excuses not to have them done by someone else. We take plenty of our own photos, but there is still merit in having someone else take them for you--something we've only done twice so far in Nora's life, which I carry a lot of guilt about. Still, I try to tell myself that I have adequately captured her life thus far--with way more detail than our parents captured our lives, thanks to today's technology--so I shouldn't feel guilty.

Overall, my goal is to have photos taken once a year, sometime between May and September. We've accomplished that so far, but it's shocking to see how much Nora has changed since the last time we had them done, yikes!

Anyway, enough talking. It was so hard to narrow these down. We got 70+ photos from the photographer, I narrowed them down to 44(!) for posting to Facebook for family and friends... and now I've narrowed them down further here.

(Hey, I didn't say I did a GOOD job of narrowing down. So bear with me through the photo dump. And enjoy?)

{Nora was OBSESSED with these parasols. OBSESSED.}

{I'm getting those little wrinkles around my eyes! I'm aging! Wahhhh!}

{She's "roaring" at the photographer, like a tiger. She likes to "scare" people.}

Now, for the hardest part of all... deciding which ones to hang on our walls! Eek!