Family Photos

I really wanted some family photos of the three of us, before Eloise gets TOO much bigger. So using my trusty camera, tripod and self-timer, we ventured out. I had the perfect park in mind, one we had gone to the week before and was definitely the most beautiful place I've seen in Greenville/Eastern Carolina yet. However, we made the 'mistake' of going the day after thanksgiving, and apparently all park workers were out Black Friday shopping, because it was closed. I hate it when parks are closed - isn't that one of the purposes of them? Enjoy the outdoors, at any (daylight) time? Anywho, after many tears on my part -- blame the postpartum brain -- we ended up walking a LONG ways on this winter-fied trail (read: dead trees, swamp-like feel, no colors or pretty light), we walked all the way back, only to take photos at the part of this other park right by where we parked the car. It turned out looking A LOT prettier than it actually was, thanks to getting just the right angle to cut out the dead trees here, too. And you know what? I LOVE how they turned out. And I especially love that we have nice photos of the three of us, and of each of us with Eloise. And when she's a little older, maybe I'll find a good photographer out here who I can pay to take photos, and maybe even get some of Dylan and I together? What a thought :) I just need to get better at figuring out poses that will work for the three of us with the self-timer -- it's so hard to get in to a fun and casual position when you're running for the spot!

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