Every year I spend entirely too much time thinking about our Christmas card. I try to find the perfect pictures to go with the perfect card. The latter being much easier for me than the former thanks to one of my very talented sorority sisters who has her own invitation design and printing business - Emily O. Holmes.
Generally I have professional pictures taken of the boys in the fall with the intent of using one of the pictures for my card, but this year that didn’t happen. We have beautiful pictures taken at the beach in September by my very talented niece, but they don’t fit with my typical “Christmas card” theme. Before I decided whether to step out of my comfort zone and use the beach pictures or go with a more traditional card, I needed to get some new pics of the boys.
That brings us to Saturday. Late that afternoon I dressed the boys in coordinating outfits, drug everyone outside and started begging, pleading and bribing them to cooperate and smile. I figured Copeland would be my problem child since he doesn’t quite understand bribing, and that turned out to be half true. Copeland did not want to sit with Mac and take any pictures, but he was very good and smiling and taking pictures by himself. Mac on the other hand was very cooperative but is going through a “fake smile” phase. Albi and I did everything we could to try to get him to give us a normal smile, but it was difficult. Matter of fact I had to redo his individual shots the next day because I wasn’t thrilled with any from Saturday.
First I will share with you what I refer to as the “blooopers” 
in up and let them have the bribe. At this point Copeland had already finished his solo shots, and I was hoping that somewhere in the middle of the bloopers I managed to get one decent group shot. 
I’ll share the pictures I’m happier with in the next post.
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