Outtakes

Outtakes - is that one word or two?  It looks weird as one word...Out takes....that 'looks' better!

Anyways.....

I wanted to share some of the outtakes from our gender reveal photoshoot.  As I mention earlier, it took a lot of bribing to get Matthew to finally stand on his own withe the chalk board sign (special thanks to my hubby for making me the chalkboard)!

Here he is after opening his DVD.  He wanted nothing to do with the sign after he had his hands on that DVD. 

At one point, we both had to sit down with him, but he still wasn't feeling it.



Now, on to the big reveal part.  We were setting up and getting ready to open the box when a BIG gust of wind blew thru and the box went flying!  I thought for sure the box would just open up and the balloons would just fly out!  My photographer friend and my niece Abbey took off running after the box.  They caught up with it and luckily everything was still in tact!

When we finally got around to actually opening the box, we were expecting the balloons to just float out of the box.  You know, that's what helium balloons are suppose to do, right?

Well, that was NOT the case!

We had to reach into the box and give them kind of a jump start.  It all happened so quickly and was just hilarious!  I think the balloons were blown up too big and so they were 'stuck' together in the box. 

We managed to get them all out of the box and they all flew away (kind of one by one).

It was a one time kind of photoshoot so we couldn't have a 'do over'. 

This is where the beauty of photoshop comes in! ha!

The picture below is one of the very few good ones that the photographer captured with the balloons.  I told her to just photoshop more balloons in the picture so it would actually look like we had more than two balloons!

Here's the BEFORE picture.

And the AFTER (photoshop)

It just goes to prove that sometimes, photoshoots don't always turn out the way you plan them, especially when you are dealing with unpredictuable subjects like toddlers and helium balloons.

But we had SO much fun and will always have the memories.  Matthew still talks about opening the box and pink ballons coming out.  We still laugh about how funny it was to watch the photographer run after the box!   It was a special day for our little family and no about of photoshopping can take that away!