Family Pictures

The other day I attempted to get family pictures of John, Gabe and myself. What an ordeal!
We all got dressed in our color coordinated clothes and the warning was given - "Don't Get Dirty!" So naturally John gave Gabe a cup of orange juice without a lid on it. I hurried and swapped it for a sippy cup so we didn't end up with OJ on his clothes. So we swap the cups and I kid you not on his first drink from the sippy cup he gags and coughs OJ all over his outfit. Okay, no biggy he's two let's just spot his shirt and get the pictures taken before anything else happens. Well somehow John ended up with cherry Crystal Light on his shirt! So he runs to the laundry room to treat the stain and came out a couple minutes later with a wet spot on his shirt saying, "See, it'll be fine. I used that little pen thingy to treat it." I started to laugh because the only "pen thing" we have in the laundry room is a bleach pen. So he totally bleached his blue shirt! So much for color coordinated outfits . . . oh well.
Our next problem was we were taking pictures in between conference sessions so we were on a two hour time limit. So we couldn't deal with clothing issues any longer, we had to get out the door and get the pictures taken. We got the the State Park where I wanted to have our pictures taken and everyone else in Ohio was there too. No biggy, just ironic that every other time we've been there the place has been deserted and today we were tripping over people as we walked down the trail. The place I wanted to take pictures I remembered being just a short walk from the parking lot . . . my memory was a little off because I think we walked for almost a mile before just picking a different spot. So now we were all nice and sweaty, Gabe was screaming because he just wanted to play in the river, and John was freaking out because I made us leave the trail and go down by the river for our pictures despite all of the stay on the trail signs. Anyway, I just don't think the stars were correctly aligned that day for us. We took a few pictures, none of which turned out great, and then decided to just bag it and try again another day. John and I were getting frustrated with each other, Gabe was not happy being forced to sit still, and we wanted to get back home to listen to conference, so we had to just say oh well. Here's some of the pictures we did take and hopefully soon we'll have some better pics to share.