Family Picture Day

Picture day in the Poggemann household is never a fun ordeal.  The first obstacle being finding a good day to go out when everyone is available, nobody is too cranky, and the weather is somewhat decent.  The second problem is always coordinating outfits.  It's hard to coordinate that many people, especially when one of the older ones with oppositional disorder doesn't necessarily want to even look like he/she belongs to any of the others.

Somehow, all of the planets aligned on this particular day and I think we got some decent shots:

In this first one, Felix was just getting a lay of the land, but I love how Lissy's hair looks so alive!

This is a pretty decent family shot, but we thought we could be a little more creative.

This one made the biggest picture on the Christmas card, although it wasn't my favorite of me.  Sadie looks awfully cute, though, along with the rest of the family!

This one was my favorite on the Christmas card (except for Spencer), mostly because my hair looks so cute and windswept! With these last two that were on the Christmas card we would all start at the camera and run in as soon as Felix pushed the timer button.

I liked this one second best, especially Lissy.

This one didn't make the card, but it's very telling as far as family dynamics and people growing out of pants.

Before the picture above, while we were running into a photo, Sadie fell and gashed her knee up really bad (you can see the bandage if you look closely).  We had to pack it up and hoof it back to the car in search of some first aid.  She was a real trooper and decided she could handle doing some more pictures.  I don't think any of the other kids would have been so resilient.

The girls.

Sisters & Choncho.

The boys.

Brothers & Choncho.

Next comes what happens when we try to get all the kids to cooperate and take one nice little picture all together:

Why, oh why, do we even try?

The next step in this oh, so wonderful family picture day experience is to try to take individual pictures of each of our delightful children.  Some actually turn out really good:

 

 

And finally, to wrap it all up, we take a few random shots of the post-portrait steam blow-off.

The END!