Thanksgiving Trip - Family Pictures

While we were in Utah we decided to take our family pictures.  I'm not really sure why I thought this was a good idea, but I did.  And once I decide we're going to do something, there's no stopping me.  Pretty much nothing worked out.  We were all sick and getting a late start and it just didn't look like it was going to happen, but I had gone through all the trouble to pack our clothes for family pictures, and we were going to take those pictures dang-it!

What started out as a nice morning, turned into a super windy and cold day.  We brought a blanket to sit on in case we wanted to be on the grass, but ended up using it to keep warm while we set up the camera.

 My hair looked like this in almost every shot, and some random dude got in the background of this one.  At one point there was a kid that decided he wanted to throw rocks off the bridge and we had to ask him to wait for a bit so we could finish taking pictures.

And then I got my water bottle out so I could try to tame my hair that had been blown super staticy by the wind, but forgot to screw the lid back on and the wind blew it over and water got everywhere.

 And then some how the planets aligned and we got one, and only one, good picture.  It was a Thanksgiving miracle.

And then the next day, since I hadn't really learned my lesson, I decided it would be fun to take more pictures.  Except this time we did them inside, and it actually wasn't nearly as awful.  I saw this idea for Christmas pictures on Pinterest and I really wanted to try it.  They turned out so cute.