our family pics

Happy New Year’s Eve everybody!  I’m so excited to share these pictures  with you!  Every year (like many people) I like to do family pictures. What I want to capture is my family like it really is – not stiff and posed and unnatural – but us enjoying each other and being ourselves!  Well this year (thanks to some Pinterest inspiration) we did something totally different 🙂

I told the boys, “We’re going to do some painting together.”  They love painting and creating, so they were automatically interested.  But what made them really excited was when I told them they could splash paint on their Daddy!  We had so much fun and I could not be happier with how these came out!

So, without further ado, here are our family pictures for 2012 – enjoy!!

I’m not sure how we’ll top this next year, seriously! What I love most is that the boys remember this and how much fun we had!  I sometimes worry that me constantly having the camera out will turn them off to having their picture taken, but this session made for a really happy memory – for all of us 🙂