Christmas Card Pictures (The Rejects), a Mommy Blog

In anticipation of mailing out our annual Christmas Card, I invited our dear friend Martha to take some pictures of us. The original date was for Sunday (rained out), which we moved to Monday (you guessed it...rained out) You gotta love Texas weather. We decided on Thursday. Turns out the high yesterday was 43 degrees. Fastforward to 4 pm at the train station.

I was already a little grumpy from wardrobe issues. (You know those days where all of your clothes shrunk a couple of sizes in the dryer & you can't find the right outfit)

I had pictured in my head one of those pictures...you know the one. Where you look at the family and see how they are oozing happiness. Their clothes aren't matchy-matchy, but look great together, hair is great, all looking into the camera & smiling. You know the ones, right.

Well, if that's what you're looking for, run quickly, it ain't here!

Here's just a few outtakes from our photo shoot.

This is me telling Hubby to "Just spit out your gum...like this!"

Me: "Nice tongue action, there Son!"
Him: "Ope, Ope" (translation: open the door please Mama)

Considering that we fought/bickered all the way to the train station, this seemed forced.

"Mama, I think my forehead is stuck to the train rails."

On a side note, isn't this a great sweater?

This is pretty much what he did the whole time...running in circle & trying to dart out into traffic. Makes for great action shots, but Christmas Card Photos, not so much.

In an effort to get the G-Man to smile, I thought we'd try the

"Show Martha your teeth, G-Man!"

This is the result. Looks kinda scary. Remember that episode of Friends where Monica & Chandler are trying to take their engagement pics & he can't smile. Kinda like that. Never mind.

Me: "Put him up on the bench, he can't run around up there."

Not good either. Darn. Wow. I really didn't think this would be this hard.
By the way, the reason why he is standing like this is because he just took a huge poop in his diaper. Sigh.

"Oh look, a flower!"

Ok, so this is cute, but a Christmas Card, nope.

G-Man bailed after this picture. Just look at the expression on Hubby's face. He looks like he could kill me, right.

Per his request we WILL be making arrangements next year for an indoor location in the event of actual winter weather coming to Texas.

My exact words when we got in the car were:

"Well next year, HONEY, we will do Christmas Pictures in the dead of Summer in my bikini!"

Martha, are you ready for some Photoshop? (For the bikini pics?)