Our Holiday Photos... an adventure, but totally worth it!

We had some photos taken in November because it had been several months since we had any taken and we hoped we would get one (or more) to use for our Christmas cards.  We signed up for a mini session with the amazing Danielle Bryson of Danielle Bryson Photography, I picked out the outfits way ahead of time, and thought we were all set.

Well, on the day of the shoot we were late leaving the house, had trouble finding the park where we were supposed to meet her, and it started sprinkling on our way there.  I was stressed, to say the least.  Oh, and did I mention our dogs were with us because we were determined to get a photo with them for the Christmas cards??  Um, yeah.  We arrived and Danielle was great and didn't chastise us for being late but Brady was not very cooperative (he was distracted by the other dogs in the park) and then because it was so cloudy we lost our light and basically it got dark about 20 minutes sooner than we expected.  Danielle did manage to get a few good shots of us before it got dark but she wasn't 100% satisfied so she contacted me and offered to do another shoot for free and give us those pictures in addition to any good ones she got from the first shoot.  She is amazing!

So, we planned to meet up again about a week after Thanksgiving.  It was cold that day, but not painfully so - until we got to the park!  The wind was blowing so hard that we basically couldn't stand to be outside without our coats on and poor Brady was just freezing!  So, she worked quickly to get a few shots of Brady in his outfit he wore to see Santa (we saw Santa that morning), then we threw on his sweater, coat, and hat and grabbed our coats and huddled for warmth!  It was sooo cold!  It felt like we were only out there for about 5 minutes and we were all back in the warmth of our cars.

Danielle sent me the picture the next day (I told you she is awesome) and she got some fantastic shots!  I am really so happy with how the pictures turned out and we got more than enough good ones for our holiday cards and I have ordered prints for our parents as gifts.

So, without further ado, here are some of my favorites:

From the first shoot:

Family shot with our puppies!

You can see how dark it actually got outside!  I still think this one is cute, though:

From our second shoot... Brady in his cute vest and tie after visiting Santa:

One of my favorite pictures of Brady - ever:

I think you can FEEL how cold it was by looking at this photo:

After we grabbed coats, hats, scarves and huddled for warmth!

I love these guys and I love this photo!

Thanks again to Danielle for being so awesome!