Photo Location Scouting

I drag the kids across town at golden hour to scope out photography locations.  Trust me -- I don't do it because I like it.  And I definitely don't do it because they like it (they don't).  I do it because it must be done.  You can't really photograph a family (or even a person, for that matter) very easily without checking out the location first. 



This is what it's usually like.  They're tired and hungry and generally annoyed not to be watching Doc McStuffins in the car (but isn't that sunlight gorgeous on the top of their unhappy little heads?)

But yesterday morning was magical. 

 
Desperate to check out downtown McKinney before a rapidly approaching evening session there, I dragged the kids across town to check it out yesterday morning.  And lo!  They were having a sort of carnival!  We rode the Ferris wheel and the merry-go-round and ate chocolate fried pies. 

I was somewhat mortified when I took the stroller over a speed bump, and Lucy somehow half fell, half lunged out of the stroller onto her head.  She was fine, but she did cry over her boo-boo (on her knee?  her shin?  I couldn't figure out exactly where it was supposed to be).  This stage of life, as my sister pointed out the other day, can be so completely and accurately illustrated with a picture of our stroller crew.  I feel like a circus act, sometimes.  We are like controlled chaos when we're out and about.  But the kids loved our morning activities, and of course they loved the chocolate fried pies.  

Lucy spent the ride home asking when we could go back.