I hadn’t taken an “official” portrait of my two children together since spring. I looked back to link that blog post here, and realized I never posted it. Here they are last April:

Do you see how they’re both smiling so cute for the camera? What little angels. Evan is always a little a little angels for pictures now. He’s 7 and old enough to understand to cooperate. My biggest challenge with him is getting “real” smiles vs. posed ones. Campbell was a bit more of a challenge, but she was about 11 months old there and still pretty willing to sit and be held and was amused by silly voices.

Fast forward a few months to this fall. Evan is still cooperative and willing, but Campbell is now almost a year and a half old. Here are a few things she doesn’t like doing: standing in one spot, posing, smiling when not in motion, sitting in one spot, laying in one spot, kneeling in one spot…you catch my drift. I took around a million shots (okay maybe 80) and this was the best I could come up with. It was actually the very first shot I took. When going through the images, I initially passed over it, as Evan’s arm is kind of at a weird angle, Campbell’s finger is on her mouth, and my neighbor’s house is in the background. However, after looking through the rest, I realized it was the ONLY image where both kids were looking at the camera with a pleasant expression on their faces. So, I did some quick photoshopping and cloned out my neighbor’s house, and came up with this:

Not perfect, but it’s the best I could do. I’m not sure if I will have the energy for Christmas portraits this year; we’ll see.