Sunday, December 22, 2013

Christmas Photos: Best of the Worst

On Friday I posted a few crazy photos from our warm-up photo session last Sunday. My goal was to set up the photo studio in the downstairs family room, to have a practice photo session with the older children , and then to have the younger children join them for the official photo session.

Good plan, but on Monday Kara decided to try out her new projector by showing a movie in the family room which meant rearranging all the photo equipment. (Grrr!) After getting the studio set back up we then could not find a time when all the children and opa (the photographer of choice) were available. We had a limited window of time to work in because the downstairs family room was turned into a guest bedroom from Wednesday to Saturday, so last Tuesday Kara used opa's camera while he was at work to take some photos. 

She did not get a nicely posed shot with all five children looking at the camera with smiles (or at least nongrimaces) on their faces. Is that too much to ask for? Today after church we tried again. Opa took the photos. I have the comic outtakes below from that studio session. (I don't have any funny photos from our second session, but there were some.) On Christmas Day I will post the best shots from the  last two photo sessions.

This photo sums up how the second photo session went.
Lincoln looked at Evan instead of the camera.
Evan would not sit still.
Viva and Jake were easily distracted.
Bentley smiled throughout.

So close to a good shot!

Evan would not sit.

Evan would not stand.
We took a fifteen minute break.
We brought out the chocolate chips.
We handed out candy canes.
Nothing worked.

We gave up on a group shot, but it was too late: Viva was smiled out.

Evan on the go

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