Its that time of year where everyone gets a warm fussy feeling inside. You have the urge to decorate and bake. To shop for friends and family, searching or making the perfect gift. The Christmas season really
hasn't truly started for us until we do the
annual Christmas card picture. To start off the pics we did yesterday I decided by showing last years Christmas pic. I have a hard time sometimes getting my kids to smile nicely for pics. You would think after working in The Picture People for a few years this
wouldn't be hard or at least expected. I try not to be like the parents who would come in and not be pleased by any look their child would give. Usually after a few minutes into a
photo session I give up and even though I tell my kids to smile and try to do things to get them to smile I just let them have their own look. So last years
Caspen gave a nice smile, but Willow looks a little disgruntled.
Before doing the pictures, if I have decided to do them in front of the tree, we have to decorate it. So I dressed my kids up to get some cute shots of them decorating the tree.
Caspen had a pile of 11 ornaments and Willow had a pile of 11 ornaments. This was to hopefully avoid any arguing, it worked. I put the glass ones up on top and the kids had the bottom to fill. Good thing no one sees the back since it has nothing on it but lights.
With decorating done it was time for one pic. This of course
wouldn't be the card pic, but good for
scrapbooking later on.
There it is in all its glory. This is my new tree. I call it my big girl tree since for the past couple years I have had a 4 ft tree. This one is 7 ft. I have to say its nice having a tree taller than me. I decided to put the tree downstairs this year due to past conflicts. The 4 ft tree
isn't to big, but big enough to take up space during Willows party and still hard to keep little hands away from. So to avoid any space taking or stress of having the tree messed with its downstairs. Not to mention my son has decided its fun to poke holes in the presents to see whats inside.When we go downstairs, its the rec room, than they can go, but not alone since I scrapbook down there and now we have presents.
Next we changed clothes and started the card pics. Talk about crazy. Willow has a smile down pat, but sometimes it just looks forced. They both look nice in this one, but I needed horizontal, so this was just a full body shot. They look nice though.
Cute, but
wasn't working for me. To me something
doesn't look right. Although all the effort of trying to get the pic and getting them to smile, I was about to give up and just settle.
Here is a forced smile on Willow and for some reason
Caspen thinks a smile means opening your eyes really wide and smirking. It cracks me up. I thought for sure
wouldn't matter what I did this would be his look this year.
Than I had remembered in the studio some of us would do these pics where they are laying down. I decided to try it with them. After a couple this is what I chose. This is our Christmas card pic this year. Willow looks truly happy and
Caspen has his normal look. He seems to be happy, yet disgruntled. Its him at 4. So I know by now I
don't think I will catch my kids together with the looks I want, but when you look through all the pics, not all shown, I see my kids in there. I
don't see something fake, I see them.
That's what the pic is for right, to truly see the person who is being photographed? So even though I
don't want them looking mad or upset at the time of the pic, sometimes they might and
that's okay since when the pic was taken it was the mood they were in. So, if you do Christmas cards I hope you get what you want, but than find something else in another pic and realize
that's what you truly wanted. Have a wonderful start to this busy yet wonderful season.
Its that time of year where everyone gets a warm fussy feeling inside. You have the urge to decorate and bake. To shop for friends and family, searching or making the perfect gift. The Christmas season really hasn't truly started for us until we do the annual Christmas card picture. To start off the pics we did yesterday I decided by showing last years Christmas pic. I have a hard time sometimes getting my kids to smile nicely for pics. You would think after working in The Picture People for a few years this wouldn't be hard or at least expected. I try not to be like the parents who would come in and not be pleased by any look their child would give. Usually after a few minutes into a photo session I give up and even though I tell my kids to smile and try to do things to get them to smile I just let them have their own look. So last years Caspen gave a nice smile, but Willow looks a little disgruntled.
Before doing the pictures, if I have decided to do them in front of the tree, we have to decorate it. So I dressed my kids up to get some cute shots of them decorating the tree. Caspen had a pile of 11 ornaments and Willow had a pile of 11 ornaments. This was to hopefully avoid any arguing, it worked. I put the glass ones up on top and the kids had the bottom to fill. Good thing no one sees the back since it has nothing on it but lights.
With decorating done it was time for one pic. This of course wouldn't be the card pic, but good for scrapbooking later on.
There it is in all its glory. This is my new tree. I call it my big girl tree since for the past couple years I have had a 4 ft tree. This one is 7 ft. I have to say its nice having a tree taller than me. I decided to put the tree downstairs this year due to past conflicts. The 4 ft tree isn't to big, but big enough to take up space during Willows party and still hard to keep little hands away from. So to avoid any space taking or stress of having the tree messed with its downstairs. Not to mention my son has decided its fun to poke holes in the presents to see whats inside.When we go downstairs, its the rec room, than they can go, but not alone since I scrapbook down there and now we have presents.
Next we changed clothes and started the card pics. Talk about crazy. Willow has a smile down pat, but sometimes it just looks forced. They both look nice in this one, but I needed horizontal, so this was just a full body shot. They look nice though.
Cute, but wasn't working for me. To me something doesn't look right. Although all the effort of trying to get the pic and getting them to smile, I was about to give up and just settle.
Here is a forced smile on Willow and for some reason Caspen thinks a smile means opening your eyes really wide and smirking. It cracks me up. I thought for sure wouldn't matter what I did this would be his look this year.
Than I had remembered in the studio some of us would do these pics where they are laying down. I decided to try it with them. After a couple this is what I chose. This is our Christmas card pic this year. Willow looks truly happy and Caspen has his normal look. He seems to be happy, yet disgruntled. Its him at 4. So I know by now I don't think I will catch my kids together with the looks I want, but when you look through all the pics, not all shown, I see my kids in there. I don't see something fake, I see them. That's what the pic is for right, to truly see the person who is being photographed? So even though I don't want them looking mad or upset at the time of the pic, sometimes they might and that's okay since when the pic was taken it was the mood they were in. So, if you do Christmas cards I hope you get what you want, but than find something else in another pic and realize that's what you truly wanted. Have a wonderful start to this busy yet wonderful season.
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