Sorry, just saw that post today, Dad.

I haven't gotten a CD from the studio yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post some pics here and make copies for you guys. Drake said he was going to have them color corrected for us, so I'm sure that's what is taking so long. It is Busath, you know, so it tends to be a long process. :)

I know Em has a couple of pictures from the trip on her blog, and I'll post some here that I got. I have the family ones that we took at Steve and Mary's house, and I'll just include those on the CD that I send you of the Busath ones.

Here is a preview of the best one of the casual shots. Enjoy! :)

Any sign of the Busath pictures yet?

Hey guys. Now that everyone is home and settled down (except Emily, who is moving to Texas tomorrow), Has anyone posted pictures from Christmas yet? Also, where are the Busath Photography photos? Any sign of them yet?

Informal Pics (AKA: the Not Stuffy Ones)

Hey everyone, I was thinking about the casual family pictures that we want to take, and it would be great to do jeans, browns and greens. That would be a great contrast to our formal portraits, and we'd get a much different look. What do you all think?

Also, we need to plan when this is going to happen so that we're not scrambling. I think that Monday would be a great day, what do you all think? That's pretty much one of the only days that isn't all planned out. (Thanks Grams.) Heehee.

Where should we take these ones? I would love to use somewhere in the mountains or something, but I have no idea where we'd go. I am going to contact Cori today and see if they'll even be around. Hopefully they will be and she'll take our pictures. I'll let you know.

Pictures are ON like DONKEY KONG!

Hey guys, I just got an email back from Drake. He said of course he'd be happy to let us have the RAW images on CD, if we paid a $250 session fee. Totally worth it in my book, it's STEAL! If you only knew what was normally charged for images on CD, it's like 10 times that.

So I'm okay with splitting up the cost. I hope that you all are cool with that too. We could do $100 and mom and dad could do $100 and then Em and Adam would only have to do $50. I think that's a fair trade. :) Let me know what you all think. I'm excited! Everybody start working out now and you could probably be 10 lbs lighter by the time the shoot rolls around! :) Heehee. At least, that's my plan anyway. Love you!! :)

Oh, and here's a picture of Eli and Nathan at our ward Christmas party tonight.

Don't let their smiles fool you -- it wasn't as fun as it looks. LOL! :)

Verdict is in!

Okay, the color scheme will be red/black/white. I think the guys could just do black pants with a nice button-down shirt, while the girls can do dresses in red/black/white.


Sounds good?

The little cousins will all have the same sweaters. Too bad they don't come in big boy sizes, T! :)

Thanks guys, this will be fun.

Laurel,
Thanks for doing that. I think it's going to be great to get a family portrait done, especially with Thomas leaving next year. It's our last chance for awhile!
I love the idea of red and black. Are we thinking suits for the men or just something dressy? Because Adam's suit is navy blue. It might look weird if the other men have black suits. How about black dress pants and a nice button-down? What do you think?
Nate and Aidan have matching outfits, you could get one for Eli too at Gymboree.
They are here and here.
Anyways, thanks again Laurel. I think Dec 2 will be just fine. Will they charge us an arm and a leg for this? :)

Phamily Photo

Hey all,

Just wanted to let you know that we are scheduled for a family photo shoot at the Salt Lake Busath studio on Wednesday, January 2nd at 11:30am. If this time does not work for you, speak now or forever be Photoshopped in!

They didn't have any openings the 27th, 28th, or 29th. Then they're closed the 31st and 1st. Crazy booked already.

So I was thinking we should discuss outfits. I'd love to go with a reds/blacks/khakis type of color scheme, but we're open to whatever you guys want to do. Emily and I would like it to be more formal, because we will take fun, candid pictures at another time. We can do those easily. Also, I'll need to know if there are going to be any add-ons, like separate family groups. I think Nathan and I will want our little family group and I wasn't sure if Emily and Adam wanted a family one of just them. So I put us down for 2 add-ons, but we can change that up until 48 hours prior to the sitting. I put my credit card down to reserve it. I haven't talked to Drake about anything yet, I just called the studio to see what they had open and thought I should snatch one up before they were completely booked.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this. I am actually very excited to have a new family picture! :)

Thanks all!

Oh, and here is a layout that I did of Eli just to add some fun to the post! :)

Edit: I tried to upload this layout three times, with no success. So you'll have to go check it out in my design gallery at ScrapGirls:

Left side
Right side