Wooden Staircase

With Robby's interest in photography and my interest in making pretty scrapbooks, we are always looking for interesting, attractive poses for the girls.  While we were at Rhodes Hall, we tried some shots on their old wooden staircase.  Catherine can be so flirtatious:

It is so hard for my kids, when they are together, to be serious.  These pictures were taken while a Christmas party was going on, so Catherine and Sabrina were not willing models.

I do love the hug & kiss shots!

Pictures at the Park

We finally took our "Easter" pictures!  Every spring I have bought cute matching dresses from the girls and coordinated outfits for Robby and me a few weeks before Easter.  We have the girls wear them the first time some day before Easter for formal pictures, and then they can wear the dresses to church on Easter.

Well April 2012 was quite hectic for us. We spent a week in D.C. sightseeing.  Catherine had a bladder operation followed by an ER visit a week later.  So, we did not do the pictures for Easter.  And then May passed.  June.  July.  And most of August.

So we were so excited when some friends suggested we take some pictures of our families today.  I love to alter the pictures to black and white:

 Me and Sabrina:

 The girls on a bridge:

 Catherine is such a deep thinker (should I start calling her Socrates?):

I love this pose!  Unfortunately, there are tons of distractions at the park and so Catherine's attention wavered:

 Kisses from Catherine:

 Me and Robby:

 Sabrina gets so silly during picture taking sessions:

 Catherine is so "over" this picture session:

Alright, so Catherine has decided she is willing to continue to participate:

I love this shot of us on the bridge.  It is actually a fairly short bridge, even though it looks long in the shot:

 I like this pose, but of course it is so hard to have four people smile simultaneously:

 Catherine making silly faces:

This pose makes Sabrina look shy, which she is anything but!

Black and Whites

I love the simplicity of black and white photographs.  Robby took these of the girls last week at the park:

Black and White Pictures

I love the simplicity of black and white pictures.  Here are some black and white versions of the Daddy-Daughter-Daughter Dance shots:

Easter Pictures

Twice a year we buy matching outfits for the girls: Christmas morning pajamas and Easter dresses.  While we were celebrating Easter at my father's house, we took a bunch of pictures of the girls.  I love the pearl themed headbands, although Sabrina kept taking hers off:

 We told Sabrina to dance to try to get some interesting shots:

 It is so hard to get toddlers to face the camera:

 Sisters ... what are they talking about?

This is why we call Sabrina "smiley:"

 Getting them to hug each other led to several tackles:

 Can you tell Sabrina jumped into my lap?

There was lots of laughter:

 Me and my girls ..

 Robby and the girls ...

 We had a lot of fun staging these shots, with the girls running to us:

Then jumping into our laps:

 Catherine collapsing into Daddy's lap:

 I love the pictures of the girls walking together:

Here is the best  family shot we got:

 Sabrina loves to "fly:"

 Catherine on Robby's shoulder:

 Me and Robby after seven years of marriage:

 This was a hard shot to get because the girls were no longer cooperative:

I like this picture because Catherine was trying to edge in on our couple shot:

Robby got some amazing pictures of the Blue Angels:

It is amazing to me how they can take off like this: