Our Christmas Photo

I was determined to get our Christmas card photo cards ordered this past weekend. I normally just send out one of the kids but I thought it would be nice to have the whole family this year. We had lots of opportunity this weekend for other people to snap a picture of all four of us, but either we kept forgetting or the pictures were just awful. I am not being fussy. My only requirement was that all four of our faces be visible and somewhat forward facing for our Christmas card photo. I know better than to ask for simultaneous smiles at this point.
But here it was Sunday evening, almost sunset time, and we had not even one decent photo. So we got the kids dressed in a combination of their Sunday best and their beloved red Mickey Crocs and dragged the wagon out under the orange tree. I sort of like that taunting element, like ha! we live in Florida! it's hot and green out and we have oranges! (like I ever really eat any of them). Anna insisted on wearing her red Christmas dress and not her green one that matched her Bubba's sweater, and she also demanded that she be able to hold a dirty beach bucket as a prop. Jonathan's hair is crazier than ever and I just don't have the energy to fight it down very much anymore. I had just woken up from a nap (A NAP!!!!) and I had no makeup, no bra, and my hair was all slapped and pinned back and up. I was not wearing my green sweater that matched Jon's (and would have matched Anna's dress perfectly). I was NOT camera ready! But Dave suggested he could prop the camera up on the hood of the Taurus and set the timer. And we wound up getting some good pictures of the kids because our cat Sabrina jumped up and sat right by the camera. So they got the giggles, saying that the cat was actually taking the picture. For the last and best picture, Dave swapped the dirty beach bucket for the cat and we pretended that the bucket was taking the picture. The cat made Anna happy, the timer went off, and there you go! One picture of the Dooligans 4 looking slightly undone and not very color coordinated. But we all look happy, and we are together, and I got to take advantage of Winkflash's awesome special. 100 cards, with envelopes, plus the cost of shipping them to us, for only 30 bucks! And that actually makes me happier than if I had been photographed with makeup, a bra, a matching green sweater and a nicer hairdo.
Jamie