Family Pics 2008

This year we went to Soka University to get our family pictures. The grounds there are beautiful and amazingly manicured; this made it easy to find some good spots for pictures. Luckily Treyvan and Kalli were in good moods, which made the "shoot" run pretty smoothly. Here are a couple of the finalists:



We ended up using this one:

I am pretty pleased with how they turned out; we'll see what happens next year with a crazy 1 yr old running around...

"Cheese!"

With Christmas just around the corner, we decided to do a picture taking swap with the Lowry's. Wendy and I scouted out the perfect place a few days before, the Montage Resort Beach, and since Nate has a "professional" camera, I offered it to take the pictures. We met at 10 a.m. and were ready to go. The Lowry's were first and tried to look natural while sitting on the jagged rocks. Things were going great for the first few minutes, then unexpectantly the camera began flashing "low battery." I thought this to be impossible since I had just charged it the night before, but nontheless it continued to act like it had no power. I was so upset and very sorry for the Lowry's, since we had only taken a handful of pictures at this point. I had high hopes for this "photo shoot" but those hopes were disappearing fast. Nate nursed the battery along, taking the battery in and out-which weirdly enough seemed to help, and we made it through another hour of picture taking. We got a few good shots, but I can only imagine what we could have had if the camera was fully cooperating. So here are a few of our favorites and my apologies go out to the Lowry's-next time we will bring a brand new battery!


Could we ask for a prettier place to live?!

So sweet and "innocent"

Splash time

Up & down, up & down...

So seductive. Kalli's preparing early for the cover of Sports Illustrated

"Hmmm...it feels a little breezy"

Just the girls

Picture perfect