The Richardson Family

Growing up in a family of 10 kids, I remember dreadfully hating (and yes I said "hate") when my mom or dad would announce that we were going to have our annual family pictures. Reason #1- my mom would usually coordinate us all to match and that meant me being forced to wear some itchy, scratchy uncomfortably "not-my-style" dress. Reason #2- Somebody was always yelling for us to say "Cheese" and pretend we were happy and that was after the fact that I had been crying all morning. Reason #3- I always was so disgusted with how I looked in the picture anyway. Although, I speak so harshly about these memories, I am thankful for my parents who tried so hard to just get us all together in the same room (even if it was in some kind of weird too-close-together formation). Love you mom and dad.... :)

Well, I vowed that I would never force this misery upon anyone. I "dream" of taking family pictures where I can just say, "Okay just go play and pretend I am not here." Well.... I'm not quite there YET. I managed to have both of these cute adorable kids crying within the first 5 minutes. I hope they are not traumatized with this memory. Things did get better as we shot more but I am still working on not scaring the kids and trying to just get those candid shots like I would want taken of my own family. I want people to be able to see their family photos and have memories of love, happiness, and togetherness. I was cracking up with my sister Gracie the other day when we were looking at all our old "family portraits". They don't remind me of my happy childhood (which was awesome, by the way) yet they just remind me of that horrible picture day. Hahaha. At least I have something to laugh at though.

But....enough about me... the Richardsons were so cute and Candice (just like Kim) was so photogenic and just the cutest-so-put-together mom ever. I also loved watching Grant get so excited about taking a picture with his son. It was so cute and I wish I had video-taped everyone's faces while trying to get Macey to smile (which was adorable). They truly are a beautiful family and it was such a pleasure to take pictures for them.

While she was busy posing all by herself, he was busy playing in his own little world. :)