As a gift for Naomi’s 30th birthday, I wanted to give her some nice photographs of herself. So one day after work I dragged home a ton of lighting equipment and set up a studio in our living room after the kids went to bed.

My beautiful wife:

The next day I dug out the white paper background again to get some pics of the kids. It was a challenge getting the kids to sit still and smile, but we managed to get a few photos of the munchkins that are keepers.

The perfect family:

But of course, photographs lie.

The reality was more like this:

Squinty eyes, big eyes, bye byes.

“Enough of the cute stuff, I’m outta here!”

For this one I asked friends on facebook to come up with a caption.

My submission was “Why are girls so weird?”

A few others were:
Becky: “What are they so happy about?”
Nichole: “uh oh, my sisters have gone stepford!”
Adam: “There are two of them, and only one of me…this can’t be good.”
Scott: “Smile and wave… just smile and wave.”

Ellie

Adelaine

And Ethan Buddy

We got one of me too, trying not to look like my usual grumpy self.