Once a year we plan for our family photo shoot to take place the Saturday after Thanksgiving. EVERY YEAR! There is nothing new about this. It has been this way for years. I plan for our family to look "perfect" from our coordinated outfits to our beautiful scenery. This takes much thought and prep on my part. And it's stressful. We all know how stressful this day is with little kids. Why my wonderful husband would ever plan to do other unnecessary shit on this day is beyond me. It's hard enough to make it through the dressing of 4 kids, plus getting myself ready and keeping everyone clean all the way up until the photographer says SMILE. All while managing the screaming, whining & temper tantrums throughout the entire shoot. It is not uncommon for me to bribe everyone with soda, candy & a new Play Station if they just F'n do this ONE task for me (I don't ask a lot). All I want are AMAZING family photos to look back on and remember how terrible AF they were to do!
So our photo shoot is scheduled for noon and while beautifying my old ass in the bathroom and probing Facebook to see what's up in LaLaLand, I notice a FB post with photos of my husband & his brother laughing and having a merry old time in the middle of a field burn RIGHT NEXT to the country barn setting I have designated for our annual family picture day! For those of you that don't know what a field burn is let me explain. Field burning is the burning of grass, grain or vegetation in an open field in order to remove plants and improve the health of the field. Basically farming shit. This field was approximately 40 acres. REALLY?! An impromptu field burn 60 minutes before capturing the happiest moments of our lives on camera????!!! WHY???!!!!
A thick fog of smoke is cast across the landscape with zero visibility! See that creepy ass figure standing in the smoke? Yup, that's my husband! So I walk outside and scream across the field ARE YOU FUCKEN KIDDING ME?! He lets out a chuckle (he KNEW he was in so much trouble) He yells....."What? You told me to burn the boxes." Actually, I mentioned burning boxes two days ago, NOT one hour before our scheduled photo op portraying our "majestic" family life! How in the shit did burning a few boxes turn into burning a 40 acre field? If you were me, you would freak the F out too! But of course like anything else that he does, shit works out! Not only did the smoke NOT ruin our picture perfect scenery...
...it added a mystifying fog which may offer the illusion that we are a family of Twilight Vampires in a shadowy pasture. So what does my amazing photographer do....
....she adds some "majestic" fucken snow! BOOM, Game over!
@MyGirlzPhotography
So our photo shoot is scheduled for noon and while beautifying my old ass in the bathroom and probing Facebook to see what's up in LaLaLand, I notice a FB post with photos of my husband & his brother laughing and having a merry old time in the middle of a field burn RIGHT NEXT to the country barn setting I have designated for our annual family picture day! For those of you that don't know what a field burn is let me explain. Field burning is the burning of grass, grain or vegetation in an open field in order to remove plants and improve the health of the field. Basically farming shit. This field was approximately 40 acres. REALLY?! An impromptu field burn 60 minutes before capturing the happiest moments of our lives on camera????!!! WHY???!!!!
@MyGirlzPhotography
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