An Extra Merry Christmas

This year with the addition of Lincoln to the family, we've had an Extra Merry Christmas.

Taking the annual Christmas photo is always a memorable event. The children, the adults, the cat...it's work, not play. That's okay. Not everything in life has to be fun. We had two photo shoots. The photo above came from the first shoot. I asked for a second shoot because I wanted to get a smiling Lincoln and a Santa cat in the Christmas Photo. That never happened, but we did get some more really great photos.

Here's what most photos of the trio, the baby, and the cat turned out like:


We almost had a good photo. This photo inspired me to do a second shoot--we were so close:


When we were buying the Santa hats, the boys talked me into reindeer horns, too:




Sometimes we let the kids make funny faces for a few shots:


And then they would smile nicely for one or two photos:


Lincoln was hard to work with:


The cat was easier to work with:


We're done with Christmas photos until next December!