THE INFAMOUS GROUP PICTURE
Saturday
This is something I've been looking forward to for a long time ... our first group photo. In China, we didn't stay at the White Swan Hotel, which is home to the red couches famous in the world of China adoptions. Most travel groups have a group picture of the kids on one of the red couches. Our group missed this opportunity. So we planned to have a group picture taken at our reunion with all the girls wearing the same black and white pillow case dresses and our lone boy, Truman, dressed in the same colors.
Here is Miss Malia all dressed up and ready to go.
Looks good right? Well on the way to the photo shoot at a nearby park she decided to untie her ribbons and pull one of them out! So here I am in the back seat of the van trying with all my frazzled might to figure out how to re-string the ribbon. Why was I frazzled? Because one of our families needed to leave right after the photo shoot to catch a plane! Leave it to us to be the ones to hold things up. Fortunately for us, we had plenty of time for Rick to save the day and re-string the ribbon by tying it to a pen and pushing it through the hem. My hero!
On a grassy knoll we placed all our children in a group to be photographed. I'm not sure who started crying first, but many others followed suit. The moms would try to set their child on the ground and quickly run away so as to not be in the picture. But humorously enough, one would always escape before a good picture could be taken. Here are a couple attempts from our camera ...
After a few minutes we decided for all the moms to hold their child and get a more organized picture taken that way.
One of the dads in our group is apparently a whiz with photo shopping and will soon be working on an edited group photo for us. Can't wait to see it!
Since Malia was all dressed up and we had the perfect setting we took a few snapshots of her before leaving the park.
Saturday
This is something I've been looking forward to for a long time ... our first group photo. In China, we didn't stay at the White Swan Hotel, which is home to the red couches famous in the world of China adoptions. Most travel groups have a group picture of the kids on one of the red couches. Our group missed this opportunity. So we planned to have a group picture taken at our reunion with all the girls wearing the same black and white pillow case dresses and our lone boy, Truman, dressed in the same colors.
Here is Miss Malia all dressed up and ready to go.
Looks good right? Well on the way to the photo shoot at a nearby park she decided to untie her ribbons and pull one of them out! So here I am in the back seat of the van trying with all my frazzled might to figure out how to re-string the ribbon. Why was I frazzled? Because one of our families needed to leave right after the photo shoot to catch a plane! Leave it to us to be the ones to hold things up. Fortunately for us, we had plenty of time for Rick to save the day and re-string the ribbon by tying it to a pen and pushing it through the hem. My hero!
On a grassy knoll we placed all our children in a group to be photographed. I'm not sure who started crying first, but many others followed suit. The moms would try to set their child on the ground and quickly run away so as to not be in the picture. But humorously enough, one would always escape before a good picture could be taken. Here are a couple attempts from our camera ...
After a few minutes we decided for all the moms to hold their child and get a more organized picture taken that way.
One of the dads in our group is apparently a whiz with photo shopping and will soon be working on an edited group photo for us. Can't wait to see it!
Since Malia was all dressed up and we had the perfect setting we took a few snapshots of her before leaving the park.
3 comments:
How adorable....love the dress and seeing all the kids together. It's hard to imagine you were all still waiting a year ago to see your childs faces for the first time. God is good and has provided the most blessed of blessings to each one of you. My prayers are still for all those still waiting for this moment.
Love the dresses! Did someone make them? They are soooo cute :)
Hi there!!! I just ADORE your pillow case dresses. I'm a polka dot girl myself. Malia is just too CUTE for words. Best wishes to your waiting friends. Here is my link. When I updated my blog ALL my links dissapeared. It broke my heart. Still haven't gotten them back up. Here is the link to "The Call" sheet. Let me know if you have any problems. :) Stephe
http://www.4shared.com/file/21979390/8e0b49fe/The_Call.html
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