Silly Alli :) The "Outtakes"

When I was showing Ryan the pictures from Alli he liked them, but he thought they were too "posed". But then when I went through the pictures and told him actually what she was doing in the pictures it made more sense. In reality Alli was just going overboard and laughing and being silly in most of the pictures, at least the ones we really liked. So I wanted to remember the "play by play" of the pictures, I don't think it is interesting for anyone else, but that's not the purpose of the post, I just want to remember what she was doing in the pictures. :) So if you are venturing ahead consider yourself warned that it is a picture (and text) overload!

On the way Alli was SUPER tired-making me nervous that this was just going to be a frustrating waste of time. Tears were shed from her as we are getting there because of multiple things-one being she didn't want to wear her boots or something, she didn't want her face washed off-she had breakfast leftover :), and who knows what else?? But we got in McKenzie's house and after only a minute Alli had warmed up to her. We go downstairs and Alli is looking around a little curious, slightly nervous even. McKenzie brought out the fabulous yellow antique chair and Alli asks where she is supposed to sit-I don't think she thought she could go on the backdrop. So I go over to the chair with her and away we go. The first pictures Alli was trying to pose how she thought she was supposed to so her head was tilted super far to the side with a fake smile. Then we told her to move it up so she looked all the way to the ceiling, of course after this we get some scrunched shoulders and more head tilts.



Alli found some wood chips from the playplace in her pocket and was pretty amused by these.

Then she actually got "posed" for a few pictures til she got bored of that and started just doing what she wanted.


Then the photog told her to stand up by the chair. She was "on" the corner til the photographer was going to tickle her and some of my favorite pics followed.



Alli thought it was hilarious. Then she decided she would tickle herself.

Then she was told to put her hands on her cheeks and she became her goofy little self with a crazy smile and turned head.


Jumping pictures were about the last to be done and Alli thought they were fun-


until McKenzie told her to put her hands on her hips and say "I'm so cute"-even more fun than jumping since Alli loves to put her hands on her hips!


That was so much fun Alli just started dancing around doing her "ballerina moves".

And that was it-not more than 15 minutes start to finish! Then she processed our pics and burned the c.d. while Alli played with her little girl Ellie (she is almost exactly a year older than Alli)-they were so funny to watch/listen to! So we were out of there in less than 45 minutes-that is my kind of picture taking!