Merry Christmas!

it's been done

A family picture involving 4 smiles and a dog....

 and I said it couldn't be done.

We even had a few to choose from

 Then Dylan wanted us to take one in front of "his" tree in the playroom

 Ok - here is the secret...popcorn - it's in a tin in the bottom of every picture.  I'm not above bribes

 This is the Dylan self portrait...

outtakes

I just stamped the 100th Christmas card so now I can share the outtakes that I didn't use from out various card photo shoots.  It is NOT easy to get 2 crazy boys to smile at the same time within camera range

I tried a very fancy "looking for Santa" shot.  Sean was appalled.

Nobody was thrilled with the "reading the Christmas book" shot

 Sean liked sitting on the fireplace (because he loves to climb up there and get in trouble) - Dylan became a total cheese

 The very popular "playing with the lights" shot - fail.

 A nice family shot?  Not so much

 Dylan doing great - Sean screaming

 I really did think about just using this one, but I figured Sean would hate me forever

 During practice shots Sean was doing great.

 Pretending to decorate, but not thrilled with me saying "look at the camera"

I'll let you decide if you like the one (or 6) we finally got when you get your mail this week.