Oh, the trials we endured for this family portrait session!

We drove 12 hours. We had to shoot it at 10:00 at night, because a busy and behind-schedule restaurant kept most of the family members out later than intended. To top it all off . . . Danny and I had to get in these pictures ourselves. Because this was our family, and these were our family’s Christmas portraits.

And if we do say so ourselves, we’re a pretty nice looking bunch!
Danny and I were so pleased to be able to squeeze in a portrait session at his parents’ house just outside Washington, D.C. before the families began scattering to different states today. It isn’t easy trying to sync schedules with families in five states, or with three college students, or with a student who’s applying to colleges, or with parents flying in and out of the country, or with dogs who rarely see a point in looking at the camera even when you finally get them in front of one. But it happened. It was a great way to wrap up our 2011 photo shoots!

~ Laura