Ah...the beautiful Christmas card picture. It almost brings a tear to the eye. A perfect picture of nothing but family joy, happiness and Christmas cheer right?
Wrong. Every parent of young children knows that the snapping of that particular photo is preceded by generous amounts of frustration, irritation, cursing (under the breath, hopefully) open threats, and questions as to why in the world we decided to have children in the first place. All of this is triggered by the fact that the children apparently coordinate their efforts to ensure that at least one of them looks absolutely horrible in each shot.
The other problem is that no less than 125 shots need to be taken in order to produce the one shot that is acceptable to send to dozens of family members and friends. Not only is the photo shoot itself time-consuming, but then poring over all 125 photo's and agonizing over which one is "the" shot takes countless hours.
In addition to the trials and tribulations of our annual photo, we were required to hike to the top of T-Rex mountain with Nan and Pop-Pop in cold and windy weather. Please note that Nana does not have a favorable history of climbing large hills, especially around Christmas time (inside family joke). This grueling trek put us in the perfect mood for the photo shoot!
For video footage of the work that went into our Christmas card photo this year, please click here, here, here and here.
Oh, and don't forget to click here.
Enjoy! And Merry Christmas, you blokes!