Never Again!!

Ya, it;s been a while since I last posted. I suck at this. Oh well, it's mostly for me and if I'm not yelling at me then all is well eh? The Mrs. started a blog and it inspires me to pick this up again. That, plus I have an iPhone and I'm posting from bed. This should help.

I'm not going to even attempt to recap the last year. Let's just pick up from here. Since here happens to be just after Alex's first birthday the family pictures are top of mind. The annual ritual of torturing ourselves. And for the first year of both kids lives, we did this punishment every three months. The usual process involves Picture People at the mall. Never heard of them? Count yourself lucky and move on!

We show up and wait. We get called in to the room (God forbid they stick you in the window at the front where the whole mall gets to watch you) and do what we can to explain what we want. We then spend the next 30 min crawling around the dirty floor of the studio because the 12 year old "photographer" thinks it's cute to have us do the exact opposite of what we wanted. 163 cliche posed pictures later, we are allowed to put our shoes back on, brush the dirt and dust off, pick up what's left of our dignity and walk out. Then comes the real wait!

You see, these bastards go throughout the pics, touch them up, print them out, and frame them - all while your kids are slowly melting into an unrecognizable mass of chaotic whining and crying. By the way, seven other families are packed in with you going through the same melt down. Finally, after what feels like 13 hours some other kid comes out with the framed pics hoping to get an "Aaawwwww!" out of us - fat chance, turd. Show us the picson the screen, let us hurry through this awful process, get fleeced and go to CPK for lunch.

Ya, but not this time!!! We got ourselves a proper photographer - a mom who knew better than to put us through that crap nonsense with crawling around on dirty floors. She met us a a beautiful park, took dignified photos, and let us go home when we were done. I'm in love with this lady!!!

And to the bastards at Picture People - NEVER AGAIN YOU TURDS!!!