...you are so frustrating!"
I don't know why it's so important to me. The annual Christmas card picture. Every year around Halloween (who am I kidding, it starts way before that), I start to think about and plan for our Christmas card picture. I guess it's because there have become so few occasions that we are all together, Brad is awake enough to participate, and there is someone there to take the picture. Every year, I plan. I plan the opportunity, the outfits, the 'photographer', the right time, etc. And every year I am disappointed. Someone is cranky, no one will smile, no one will look at the camera, someone's face is extra shiny (me), someone spits up all over their outfit (Brad...just kidding), somone falls on their way to the sofa for the picture and just can't get over it...always something.
But every year it works out. I always end up having a wonderful picture to use. I just wish I didn't cause myself so much stress in the process.
So the new picture you see in the header is the winner. I would have liked one of the whole family, but that just became too complicated to coordinate. It was hard enough to get this one. I pray that my neighbors were not secretly filming me from their house...I had to be quite an idiot to get those precious smiles. Below are some of the humorous failed attempts :)
I don't know why it's so important to me. The annual Christmas card picture. Every year around Halloween (who am I kidding, it starts way before that), I start to think about and plan for our Christmas card picture. I guess it's because there have become so few occasions that we are all together, Brad is awake enough to participate, and there is someone there to take the picture. Every year, I plan. I plan the opportunity, the outfits, the 'photographer', the right time, etc. And every year I am disappointed. Someone is cranky, no one will smile, no one will look at the camera, someone's face is extra shiny (me), someone spits up all over their outfit (Brad...just kidding), somone falls on their way to the sofa for the picture and just can't get over it...always something.
But every year it works out. I always end up having a wonderful picture to use. I just wish I didn't cause myself so much stress in the process.
So the new picture you see in the header is the winner. I would have liked one of the whole family, but that just became too complicated to coordinate. It was hard enough to get this one. I pray that my neighbors were not secretly filming me from their house...I had to be quite an idiot to get those precious smiles. Below are some of the humorous failed attempts :)
After the fall on the way to the couch
Still can't get over it and Luke is lost somewhere in my hair
I think maybe the static electricity was getting to him
Stop taking pictures!
Oh heavens...
Could they look less interested?
No idea what they're looking at, but it looks quite disturbing
Ha ha ha...my mom is such a moron!
Hey daredevil...she told you to "HOLD ON!"
I think Jackson is holding Luke hostage.
Maybe I should just go ahead and book my friend Whitney for next year :)
