So.. I love this picture!
I didn't, however love the wait time to get it taken.. Our appointment was 3:10. We waited amongst 6 or 7 families for our turn.. got taken back to studio 1 around 3:50. The photographers were super quick, (which is a good thing for my kids.. get the smiles and finish up!). That was with the Christmas background... then they said that I would need to have a seat and studio 2 would be ready in a few minutes, (there were two ahead of us) for the other backgrounds and pics. I informed them that I only wanted Christmas pics anyway, that I was ready to view my pics and check out. Anyone who has been to Portrait Innovations will tell you that they take 86 digital photos whether you want them or not.. the "have to", she tells me... but I tell her that I don't wanna hang around to go into studio 2. they can't "load my pictures" until I do that... so we wait another half hour.... my kids were wearing thin, but being better than most of the kids suffering in that busy lobby area.
Evie starts complaining that her ear hurts.. Evan wants to run around.
We get into studio 2, the kids smile wonderfully but I had already made up my mind that no matter how good the pics were, (and they were good), that I was only buying the Christmas pics anyway. We get finished quickly and as I am viewing the pics and ruling out every one but the one that I want, (and thankfully I had a guy that wasn't a hard core salesman and let me eliminiate quickly), Evie starts screaming.. and I mean SCREAMING.. Her ear is hurting so bad that she is holding it and almost laying on the ground in her pretty dress. I pay as fast as I can, Evan is getting super restless especially with Evie screaming.. and we head over to Convenient Care. Evie has a raging ear infection.. she's crying so hard that they take her back immediatly and give her Motrin.. 20 minutes later, it's like she's cured. She feels 100% better. She's on antibiotics and Motrin every 4-6 hours. I hope she has a decent sleep, she seemed fine before bed.
Anyway.. If you MUST get pics done this holiday season, I'm not sure how much I recommend Portrait Innovations this year. I don't know why they started this new thing where you have to go to both of the rooms, it takes up so much extra time. I initially figured that it was because of the Christmas background in the first room.. and they want to use different ones in the 2nd room, but then I saw them using non holiday backgrounds in the 1st one as well.. seems like you could get more people in and out if you just took them all in the one room.. whatever.
