Sunday, March 23, 2008

Making up for lost blogging time!

I have been meaning to post these pictures for sometime but managed to forget regularly. These are are just a few of Robert's Senior pictures.

This was the 2nd time he had Sr pictures taken. The 1st were taken at school before he cut ALL of his hair off...plus he realized a few days later that he was wearing the SAME clothes as our family portraits taken in Florida! Not a great testament to the changing spirit of a teenager! :) SO off to a different (read: better) photographer for pictures of the new and improved Robert!

He took some prodding to FINALLY smile...of course it helped that I refused to pay for any sullen, sad-sack portraits and walla, we have a smiling boy in our midst!

In case anyone is wondering we own the rights to these pictures so there is no copyright infringement happening here....a graduation present for the boy...just so he could post his favorite shots on his Myspace.
I will post more as I get the opportunity to watermark and convert them.
Enjoy!
Jackie
This would be the picture Robert chose for the Yearbook! When we went to look at the proofs our photographer told us this one was just a goofy joke that she mocked-up to freak Robert out...but he/we instantly knew this captured the essence of Sparky/Gumby! She was sure we were crazy but it turned out to be the perfect choice!





Okay, I lied, we paid for a couple of "non-smiling" shots...but if you look closely he is trying NOT to smile...but doesn't look like we just cancelled his allowance!
My personal favorite!














6 comments:

Amy said...

He has such a great smile!

The Ahlers family said...

You make my day! He hasn't smiled in a picture for 4 years...says he looks 'stupid'...I will pass on your complement...maybe he will keep smiling!

Anonymous said...

Love the Senior pictures- he's a handsome devil, isn't he? The teen girls here would go wild over him =) Thanks for sharing your time and energy with this fun blog!
Sorry if this posts twice it didn't show up the first time...

Annie from SHS loop

Renee said...

I like your personal favorite plus the one right over it....

The Ahlers family said...

Hi Renee, the picture you are referring to is his favorite! Although they charge an arm and a leg I was very pleased with all the great shots they got....he had 20-some shots that we wanted so we finally decided to pay for the cd and be done with it.
Thanks for visiting!

The Ahlers family said...

Hi Annie,
Thanks for the wonderful compliment, I think he is purty darn cute but I'm the mom...what do I know :-)
Thasnk for stopping by