Christmas Pics Outtakes

I decided to take our Christmas card picture early this year. Before you think I am organized or on top of things, it really had to do with a great sale on snapfish. I have only had professional pictures taken once when Jackson was an infant. Some people may think this is appalling, but I don't have a death wish. I love digital cameras for the following reasons:

you can keep taking pics until you get a perfect one usable one

if your kids act horrible, you are not totally mortified in public

it is cheaper

we have 4 kids age 4 and under

I usually manage to get a good one somewhere among the many I have to take. Well, I did end up getting some to use for our Christmas card this year, but I had many that did not work. Here are some of the outtakes just to show you how much fun we had.

Jackson is a fan of the "look up my nose" shots.


Mia cheesing it.

This is what happens when I try to get the big kids to kiss the twins.

This was the first shot. I really wanted to get one of all of them together. You can see it didn't start off well!

This one is adorable, right?

My mom and I were talking about what we did before digital cameras. We used to get the pictures developed, then pitch about half of them that didn't turn out. I admit I delete quite a few pictures that don't "work," but I do save many of them to remember moments like these that were frustrating, funny, and part of being a mom and having 4 little ones. Besides, if we deleted all of the bad pictures we wouldn't have hilarious ones like this one my in-laws took after we had Amelia in the hospital.

Priceless.

DesignHERMomma is having a contest for the best of the worst attempted Christmas card pics. I think the kissing picture is probably the best for this contest (at least this year!) If you want to join in on the fun, enter at http://designhermomma.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-card-fail-bloggy-carnival.html.

Happy picture taking!