Bluebonnets!

So we went to take the annual pictures in the bluebonnets... I'm not sure why we put our kids through this. Well, I do know why. We want these pictures to remember them at this age and the Texas wildflowers are so beautiful. However, what I remember from the last three years is lots of crying and whining and pouting and begging and threatening and promising, and not just from the kids. :)

I absolutely LOVE pictures. I have them all over my house and all over my desk at work. I love to be able to look up at any given moment and see one of my beautiful kids, posed sweetly, smiling at the camera. However, it takes A LOT of effort to get those sweet pictures. Case in point, we met the Jordons in Brenham this morning for what has become a yearly tradition of taking pictures in the bluebonnets. (Brenham has a wonderful spread of those pretty little blue flowers.)

So we pull up to the first location and we begin walking out into the field to find our spot. (One where no one else is walking around in the background.) You know, we want it to look like we were the only ones in this giant field of bluebonnets. ;) I plop Nathan down and begin taking pictures. About this time Lauren decides that she will not sit on the ground - she needs something to sit on. (Seriously, I don't where she gets this from. This is the same child who comes home from daycare everyday with dirt under her nails because she was digging a hole with her hands looking for worms.) So, Brian runs back to the car to fetch her majesty some sort of blanket to sit on. She sits and I get a couple of pictures of the two of them. Then Lauren decides that she has had enough and so begins my day of pleading with her to look at the camera and smile, not stare blankly at the camera, SMILE! We come home from this adventure tired, cranky, and sunburned, but by God, I got my pictures. :)

Here are a few of them. The rest will be on the shutterfly site in the next few days: http://barkerfamily2.shutterfly.com/

I forgot to mention... it was VERY windy and Nathan kept trying to eat the flowers. :)