Picture People

A few weeks back, we took advantage of a great gift I received at my baby shower (thank you Kim Newland!) and this week, we received the goods.  The Mangiaracina's met with Erica of Elevee Photography at the Sully Plantation on a chilly day in October to do our family photo shoot.  When I called Erica to schedule the shoot she told me that she was 100% booked until the end of the year (boo!), but she was able to squeeze us in if we could do a week day (yah!).  Luckily, we all had Columbus Day off so that was our day.

We all dressed in our finest and headed to the site to meet the lovely Erica.  She was fun, bubbly and a Mom herself to 3 young girls so she totally related to all of the baby-isms we encountered during the shoot. And believe me, we encountered a lot.  Like  A LOT a lot!!  Our typically happy, smiley, giggly little man decided that this was the day he would not crack a smile.  We did everything in our power to make him smirk. There was dancing and singing and bouncing and swinging but nothing worked.  NOTHING.  He was more interested in checking the place out than to give a big smile for the camera.

But despite this obstacle, Erica was able to get a bunch of really great photos.  At the end of the 2 hour shoot, she caught the one smile of the day and actually got 2 photos of it!  And since she is such a great person, she is actually offering us another session at half price since James was so serious during this one.  Score!  Hopefully this time, he'll give us a peek at those pearly whites he's been working on so hard.  :)

Enjoy!

 



 

 

Psst:  The video is a little grainy when viewing it on the blog.  Check it out on YouTube using this direct link.  Enjoy!