say cheese...

every year at this time, we get anthony's pictures taken to use on christmas cards and to give to family when we gather at christmas. i have spent $100's on pictures at picture people and portrait innovations each year (this is the 4th year now) and every year they look the same (don't get me wrong...they've always been good)...but this year i wanted something different.

so, we enlisted the assistance of mattie horning (john's boss' daughter) whose going to school for photography. her talent, along with a beautiful setting (the horning's home) made for the best photos we've ever had taken of anthony...i couldn't be more excited. picking the photos to be used on the card was extremely difficult, but i did it (that's for a later post) and this year, each family member will be picking which photos they want printed out because i am having too much trouble deciding.

here are two of my favorite...

and two of john's favorites...

here is a collage of some of the other pictures she took too...

and a link to the rest of the photos. you'll notice there are some funny ones of tony wearing glasses sitting at a desk and in a chair with a lap top...these would be john's boss' glasses and laptop and desk area - mattie and her mom thought it was be funny - i agreed of course - to make tony into a "mini-lavern" for some of the pictures...it also helped to really loosen him up for the rest of the photos...he was a regular ham then coming up with his own posing.