It’s that time of year, everyone that was on top of their sh*t got their family pictures taken in October, even November with lovely fall colors, amazingly pulled together outfits, and perhaps with that angelic yellow light from behind, or maybe it was photo shopped in but really whose judging?
Last year we did a photo shoot in late November/early December, I wanted a little snow in our picture, it turned out lovely.
This year I had a whole shoot in mind, but time slipped by, outfits and accessory got to be more work to find and pull together for 6 people than I had imagined, I worked 80 hours at the hospital in the span of 3 weeks, normally I am home….on so go my excuses.
So, no well-planned photo shoot for us this year, just me, my Cannon 7D, all 4 of my favorite players, and some natural light streaming from the windows full of crisp wonder from a fresh layer of snow.
Ahhhhh, sounds magical right? Well here is what will NOT be sent out on my cards this year:
Avalon was obviously having the best time….you can see here that she is mortified that no one else is having fun.
Santa’s tassle is blocking Santanna’s face. Avalon, again loving every minute, and eyes on me, please.
Ok so this might not have been the best idea, someones head got bonked, eyes of madness oing on , and again Avalon just not feeling her cooperative mojo.
Ok… lets try single pictures, just a head shot, that won’t be too hard right?!?
ALriiighty Season’s Greeting from our family to yours,
Love, Jon (attention getter, prop man, not pictured), Sarah (behind the camera, also not pictured), Crazy laugh guy (who was apparently snacking), the
Pouter age 8, Squishy face and the Joker.
In all honesty I can’t help but laugh when I look at these, the best part about pictures is that when you look back they mean so much and are great memories, of small teeth, hair styles, chubby wrists that are now gone, and memories made, out of the 395 photos I snapped I did get 1 that I used for the photo card and 1 head shot of each kid that I am going to make into wall canvases, but please tell me that others of you have these amazing moments stored on your hard drive as well??!!
Patchwork Reality 
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I enjoyed this post because I had gone through the same thing for 25 years. 5 years ago we gave up and chose one of those Christmas cards that had 5 different pictures on it. We figured that during the year, hopefully, at some time, we would have taken a nice picture of each child. I like the group picture like your family did best, but I couldn’t handle the stress of it every year…(in retrospect it was funny, but at the time, not!)