Serendipity – a “fortunate happenstance” or “pleasant surprise”.
Serendipity is the perfect description for our most recent family photos. Our entire family was going to be in Utah at the end of April for Tessa’s college graduation. Now that my children are all grown up, graduated from college and have jobs and live in different states, the times we are all together in one place are getting fewer and fewer (this is one of things I don’t like about being an empty nester)
So I decided to take advantage of the fact that we would all be together for Tessa’s graduation to schedule a family photo. The fact that we would all be together in Utah where my favorite photographer happens to live was another good reason to get a photo taken! Tara of Tara B Photography has been our family photographer of choice for several years. She is an absolute doll and so easy to work with. If you live in Utah or are visiting Utah and need a family photo, engagement photos or wedding photos taken be sure and check out her blog and her photography website. Be sure and tell her Your Homebased Mom said hi!
You can see our other family photos she has taken here in 2011, 2013 and 2014. She also took my son and daughter in laws engagement photos and I did a fun 50’s housewife photo shoot with her. She also did some fun new headshots for me recently. We love Tara!!
So back to the Serendipity part. We had planned an outdoor photo shoot up American Fork Canyon at Tibble Creek Reservoir. A beautiful spot. The day and evening before our scheduled photo shoot it rained, and rained and rained! You would think we were in Oregon.So we had to come up with Plan B and Tara did a great job of it.
Our family invaded her sister’s home where Tara had set up her lights and brought over her mother’s awesome yellow mustard sofa to use in our shoot. I loved it and I think you will agree, the photos turned out great!
She took some fun ones of my girls too .
I love how she captures their cute personalities.
And my boys…
Some fun shots with mom and dad too.
Thanks to my husband for this fun idea. Every member of our family has graduated from BYU so we each held up a sign with the year we graduated. Clark and Jessica graduated from law school at BYU too so they have two years!
Tara got a couple of cute shots of our graduate too.
And then when we were done, someone turned on some music and some of my kids “cut a rug!”
You did it again Tara! I think Plan B was even better than Plan A!
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I LOVE looking at pictures! I came across your through Pinterest and peeked around~ Who did your son’s wedding pictures? I saw that they had a carnival theme (which sounds so fun) but I would love to look at pictures~ Can you provide me with a link or website? THANK YOU!!!!
Renee, I have a bunch of carnival posts on the blog. Start with this one and it links to a bunch of other ones.
https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/wedding-carnival-2/
Such great pics! Your family is gorgeous and I love the lighting.
I love getting to photograph you guys. Thanks for posting and thanks for using me!! Love you!!
We love our Tara! What am I going to do now that all my family is not in Utah?? We may just have to fly you to wherever we are.
Wow! Leigh Anne, You are truly blessed! What a beautiful family you have.
Thanks Lisa, I am definitely truly blessed.
Such awesome photos of the family. Every time great photos. You should be a proud Momma!
Melinda, I am definitely one proud mamma!
These are delightful!
Thanks Melinda!
What kind of instructions did you give everyone as far as what to wear? Great photos!
Ellen, I actually wrote a post about choosing clothes for a family photo. Here is the link. https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/what-to-wear-for-a-family-photo/ For this photo I chose the color scheme and I actually picked out what my unmarried children were going to wear (and bought it) and then let my married son and his daughter know and they picked out their own clothes to go along with what I had gotten. There was a lot of texting photos back and forth!
I love it, I love it, I love it! Tara always does such an amazing job with your fam! YOU do such a fabulous job with the clothes, I love all the blue’s (go BYU!) and that yellow couch with all white in the background looked fabulous. Plan B turned out pretty amazing, and different than your normal background, which is GREAT! Love the idea to use the graduate years, my parents, siblings, and I all graduated from BYU, too!
Kristen, I am totally in love with them. It was fun to do something different and incorporate our BYU Blue! The yellow couch was the perfect punch of color. I wish I could have taken it home with me.
Love the fun photos. It brings out a lot more personality in the photos than just the regular sit-and-pose shots. Although, your family makes the sit-and-pose photos look fabulous, too.
Thanks Marsha, we had such a fun time doing the photos.