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All of your pics are fantastic Kelly! Worth every penny IMO, and I am glad to hear you felt the same. Gears are turning in my head now for our next family trip in a few years!
I love how candid and unposed they all were. There are so many good ones, I can't even begin to decide which are my faves. I do love the new siggy one though! Love the black & whites, and the black & whites with ears.
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Oh my goodness, those photos are just the best - wow! How long was the photo session? It seems like it went on for ages, with a number of different locations?
Thanks so much! I thought they were amazing!
The session was about 2 hours long.
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OH! Kelly, these are amazing. Lidia is a genius. Love that she got single shots, action shots, posed shots, group shots. Very creative and gorgeous and emotional. You all look beautiful!
I do love that we got a mix of everything. And yes, definitely emotional.
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Originally Posted by cubfancolleen
WOW!!! Just wow!!!
Worth whatever price you paid!!
Now I'm truing to figure out when to do something like this. May need to borrow some babies - my kids aren't that cute anymore!
SO worth the price!
And you could do this - your kids are cute!
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Originally Posted by MayraLR
Amazing photos!! Especially the ones in front of SE.
All of your pics are fantastic Kelly! Worth every penny IMO, and I am glad to hear you felt the same. Gears are turning in my head now for our next family trip in a few years!
I love how candid and unposed they all were. There are so many good ones, I can't even begin to decide which are my faves. I do love the new siggy one though! Love the black & whites, and the black & whites with ears.
Love them all!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you! I do love them so much! And considering photo packages I got a good deal on this.
Awesome pictures!!! I love, love, love the black and white mickey ears looking at space ship earth and the silohuette (sp?) of your husband holding Dylan up with his ears on.
Kelly, those pictures are gorgeous!!! I kept saying Ooooh, I like that one...ooooh, I like that one...oooh, I like that one...you see the pattern? My faves are the Mickey ear pictures and the ones in front of SE. You know I love the one of your family from the back...it could be an ad for Disney!!
Kelly the pics are fabulous! I love the ones of the whole family walking down the Boardwalk and the ones of the whole fam facing Spaceship Earth! You guys really got your money's worth from the photag! I realize we've only met for a second, but I feel like I know your whole family!
Kelly Too bad we didn't meet up but what great pictures and memories you have .
Have to agreee about the heat and humidity by that point we had both melted down and our plans where falling by the wayside and we were just letting the day take us whever it led
I think I love every single one of them! Such great memories!
Me too! It's going to be so hard to pick which ones to print.
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Originally Posted by DawnK
Awesome pictures!!! I love, love, love the black and white mickey ears looking at space ship earth and the silohuette (sp?) of your husband holding Dylan up with his ears on.
There are all just beautiful!!!!!
I thought the silohuette was a nice effect on that picture.
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Originally Posted by Cam22
Lidia had an excellent eye for the Disney joy in your family! Every single shot is awesome!
She did a fantastic job!
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Originally Posted by dsteiny23
Kelly, those pictures are gorgeous!!! I kept saying Ooooh, I like that one...ooooh, I like that one...oooh, I like that one...you see the pattern? My faves are the Mickey ear pictures and the ones in front of SE. You know I love the one of your family from the back...it could be an ad for Disney!!
I have the same pattern.
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Originally Posted by ilovedisney247
Kelly the pics are fabulous! I love the ones of the whole family walking down the Boardwalk and the ones of the whole fam facing Spaceship Earth! You guys really got your money's worth from the photag! I realize we've only met for a second, but I feel like I know your whole family!
Aw! Thanks Heather! It seems so crazy that we may know each other better than we know people we've known for much longer. I hope we can meet again someday - we're going in early June next year - are you?
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Originally Posted by stardust190
Great pictures! Of course it's easy to get such beautiful pictures when your family is so adorable.
We're going to try to get Disney pictures when we go in January. You've definitely convinced me it is worth my time and money!
Thanks about the comment about our family.
Good Luck with your pictures! I'm sure they'll be great!
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Originally Posted by MikeL
Kelly Too bad we didn't meet up but what great pictures and memories you have .
Have to agreee about the heat and humidity by that point we had both melted down and our plans where falling by the wayside and we were just letting the day take us whever it led
I'm sorry we didn't run into each other. The humidity was something wasn't it? Worse than the June or August I've experienced.
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