Fall Photos

The mountains are quickly turning from gold to grey, so our family set out to the mountains to take some pictures before all the leaves disappear. I've been wanting to take some fall-ish family pictures for a while. Our plan was to have another family come with us like Esther did, but since I only came across this idea last night, it was a little short notice for our friends. Instead we went with our tripod in tow.

Taking family pictures with a tripod proves exceptionally difficult. We had Andrew sprinting, jumping over ravines, and ducking branches to join us. I suppose I could have set the timer every once in a while, but he insisted that I wear a skirt since I wanted him to wear a tie. Running through knee-length grass in a skirt is difficult, so I held the baby and modeled for Andrew while he set up the shots.

A lot of our shots didn't turn out because Rachel was more interested in trying to eat trees than she was in looking at the camera. It's possible we have more shots of her with twigs in her mouth than with a smile on her face.

We took several family shots--Andrew had a tough time getting in all the pictures, but I think he did a great job getting in there and looking pretty in the 10 seconds that the camera gave him.


We took a few pictures of just the two of us but they kept turning out looking like engagement pictures so we quickly gave up on that idea.


We also took a few pictures of Rachel by herself, but she's hard to pose since she can't sit up on her own yet. She didn't really like how crunchy the leaves were and absolutely howled when we tried to pose her with a tree.


We also took pictures with each of us and Rachel. These were probably the easiest to arrange, aside from trying to get Rachel to look at the camera. This one is my absolute favorite:


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