Family Photoshoot

For Christmas my brother-in-law who is a professional photographer gave us a coupon for a family photo shoot once our little bundle of joy arrived. I was so happy and excited since I secretly wanted this but didn't have the courage to ask :).

So after Jack was born we started to plan when we would see them to do the shoot since they live in San Francisco. They came for a few nights a couple of weeks after he was born but Pat was sick and couldn't hold Jack so a photo shoot didn't seem possible. Then they came back a few weeks later again just for a night so it wasn't really a long enough of a trip.

But then Max and I decided to make the long trek to California to visit everyone. We were understandably nervous since we were taking an infant and 2 dogs on a 12 hour car ride but Jack was going to have to make this car ride eventually so why not now. We like to leave in the evening so we can miss the traffic and hopefully Jack would sleep through the night. This worked surprisingly perfectly! We left around 3:30PM and arrived at 3:30AM only stopping for gas and to feed Jack. The best part was that he only had a few minutes of crying before each feeding. He was a picture perfect baby. Thank goodness.

The whole family loaded up in the back seat

That weekend Pat busted out the camera and got some great family pictures. I am so thankful. The pictures are amazing, we will cherish them for many years and they will be so fun to look back on. Also isn't Jack's adorable in his bow tie outfit!!

You can see all the pictures on my facebook page