Fun Fotos

Today was the day that we had Micah's 5 year old pictures taken. At home he's not a willing subject of photography. I did realize recently that if I turn off the flash he'll not only stand there, but pose. This makes for nicely posed but dark photos of my baby.

So we turned to the professionals and let them deal with him. Plus we have a portrait plan that needs used. The boy wowed us with his photogenicism. (New word. Like?) He was in complete and total charge of the whole session. He wanted to stand for this one, sit for that, how about throwing the basketball for a little at imaginary hoops? Oh, you still want to take my picture? Okay, I'll smile nicely for this one but not so much for the next one. I'm done with this prop, let's try another. No, not that stool; this block is much better.

And all in all, out of 15 pictures we were shown, there were all of 3 that we didn't absolutely love. The kid can pose, what can we say? But our budget insisted that we narrow it down so we chose only 3 shots and came home knowing that we can view them online and order extras any time. I was going to share them with you, too. But for some odd reason I'm having a hard time accessing them via the 'net, so I had to photograph the photographs. And we all know how craptastic those can be. So here, in all their crappy glory, are the photos of our 5 year old from today.





And this evening? We actually got a horse out to use. I know, weird concept actually riding a horse and all. We've been doing nothing but feeding them and cleaning up after them for months but spring is coming and those horses are going to be ridden this year because we have them for a reason. I just have a hard time remembering what it is on occasion.