Cutting the Cost for Senior Year

I promised I would post some pictures of an idea that I came up with in order to cut some of the major cost of having a Senior in High School, so here it is. Everyone knows kids are expensive, but just wait until their Senior year. You know, they must have all the "Senior" items that are pushed on them by the school. It starts with the Senior T-Shirts, Senior pictures, cap and gown, graduation announcements, and so on and so on.

I refused to go in and pay to have photo's taken and pay $600-$800 for professional photo's. I have a great digital camera and what more do I love than taking photo's of my kids....nothing. We loaded up and went to the Botanical Gardens here in Fort Worth with a few change of clothes. I took the photo's in April, since I knew it wasn't going to take long for me to get the announcements done. (We own a printing company.) I also didn't want to take pictures in August and then hand them out 10 moths later, even though he was 18 he really did change alot during that time frame. Nate's girlfriend came along with us, so I was able to get some great shots of them as a couple along with taking a ton of pictures of him. Here are a few of the shots we took, we also had some really funny ones because he was at ease with me taking the photo's.

Here we told him to give us his "sexy" pose. We actually used this one on his cake at his graduation party!

This was a fun one we took with his girlfriend.

Serious shot with GF

So many beautiful backgrounds!

Even a brother and sister shot

Here is the finished product

Showing how it opens

So whatcha think?

It was such a fun day and we have so many fun memories of taking those photo's.