The Adventure of Christmas Pictures

Trying to take pictures of two wild and silly boys who don't want their picture taken is quite the adventrure. It did end up being kind of funny. I wanted to take them to Sears and have them done - separate and together. I haven't ever had their pictures taken in nice clothes. So, I bought the outfits - 4T for Gunnar and 12 months for Paden. The outfits are pants, shirts, vests and ties. So, the pants are HUGE on them and the shirts fit OK - but will be too small in about 2 weeks. I decided maybe I should save some money and take the pictures at home instead of going to Sears. I tried one day and Paden wouldn't stay still and Gunnar was whining because he didn't want his picture taken. That's the day that this picture was taken.

So, it's not the best picture so I decided not to use it. I decided that I would wait until Neil was home to help wrangle the boys. This past Saturday, I tried again. This is what happened . . .

So, I let them out of their outfits and out of picture taking for a minute. Once they got out of the clothes, they actually loosened up a bit. Theeeen, I got some cute shots of them . . . but not many that I wanted to put on a Christmas card. Then I finally had to settle on one to get the cards in the mail. I cropped Paden's big Flintstone foot out and slapped it in the cards.