Two Sisters. Bad Photos.

As Emily mentioned in her post last week, we got to see each other for the first time since we’ve started working on this blog back in June. (I believe it was actually on our family vacation to the Smoky Mountains in May, that we finalized our plans to give this dual blogging gig a go.) You may have noticed the photo of us over there on the side bar, and I must admit, it is a bit dated. Like several years ago. We live almost 400 miles apart, so grabbing a quick pic is not something we can do any ol’ afternoon. So, we made plans to take a better and updated version when we met up.

What we did not do, was plan on the days going so fast, my speed light breaking, or our children being needy. Because what child actually needs their parents? Certainly not mine. I usually like to just give them some matches and knives and let them have at it. Just kidding.

Anyway, by the time we were both free enough to pose for a pic, we were both slap happy, the lighting was horrible, the camera battery was dead and neither one of my children were sleeping. (Extra points to Em, whose children had passed out earlier.) So we had to resort to blurry selfies on the iPhone, which are totally not blog profile worthy. However, they are totally great for this post of “what not to do when you want a good photo for your blog.”

This pixel-y shot may possibly be the best and was taken by my daughter. We hate it. (That’s Emily on the left and me on the right, in case you didn’t know who was who already.)

Then, things took a turn for the worse, we both got goofy and photo bombing, duck lips and crazy eyes happened.

We know that these photos are by no means professional or serious, but we figured they would help give a little bit of a view into our personalities and lives. And how we act when we’re way over tired. Plus, as an added bonus, they were totally DIYed. We wouldn’t want to stray from the norm too much. *Wink* Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.