Lesson Learned

We took Riley to Sears to get some 18 month portraits taken.  We've always gone to Portrait Innovations to have pictures of Riley taken and decided to see what Sears had to offer. We learned several things at our visit to Sears:

1. We will never go back to Sears for pictures.
2. 18 month olds do not like sitting still for portraits.
3. Riley can't be bribed...not even with a sucker!
4. Grandma can't even make Riley sit still or quit crying for pictures.
5. We will never go back to Sears for pictures.

Yes, it really was that bad.  First, the rooms were small with intimidating lights and camera filling every corner.  Our "photographer" had one trick to get Riley to laugh, smile, do anything other than cry - a purple monkey that she tried to get to tickle everyone in the room with in her annoying "baby" voice. Then, after an hour of pleading with Riley to smile and quit crying posing we came out with 22 pictures to choose from.  Out of the 22 pictures only 5 (maybe 6) were cute and did not have a sucker in them.  Which should have made it easy to find a portrait package that was reasonable to purchase.  Wrong!  The cheapest option for us was a 20% off package for $144! Yikes.  We felt robbed leaving there with our CD and no pictures in hand.  If we ever do portraits again we will head back to the trusty Portrait Innovations.  We would have spent 50 less dollars and had our pictures (probably double what we purchased from Sears) that day.  Our CD would have at least 50 pictures on it. Oh well.  As much as we huffed and puffed over our crappy Sears experience we definitely left with a lesson learned. Here are a few of our pictures: