Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Annual Christmas Card and Picture



"Don't touch your brother, Justis. Get your fingers out of your nose, Dawson. Madalynn, we're not taking supermodel pictures, cut the posing!" "Dawson, don't touch Jillian, she gets fussy when you touch her. Everybody smile and say 'Christmas'!"

Sound familiar? Taking the annual Christmas letter photograph is always a challenge. The struggle is worth it in the end, though. Touching and hilarious pictures always come out of the photo shoot. The one that makes it onto the Christmas card is never perfect, but we wouldn't be celebrating Christmas if we were perfect, right?!

Jillian just wouldn't have her siblings touching her for pictures, Madalynn was doing some strange sideways look with her hair all on one side, Justis had a genuine smile the whole time, and Dawson couldn't stop touching his face. I finally caught them all between poses and intentional clowning around to snap a picture.

The cards should, hopefully, be in the mail tomorrow. Nothing like cutting it close. :)

The above pictures are my favorites resulting from the photo shoot.

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