Christmas Card Bloopers

Every year when it starts getting close to Christmas we start the hunt for "The One". This is the "perfect" picture or pictures to use for a Christmas card. Usually we try to get a family shot either from something or somewhere interesting we went during the year or a Christmas themed picture. So I started noticing we had a lot of pictures that were blooper-like that were definitely not going on the card. So here are a few I thought I would share from the blooper real.

This was Tate posing by the tree making a not so cute face. Not sure what he was trying to tell us here.

My lovely and talented wife is very creative and has had many wonderful ideas... most of the time. She had seen these pictures taken by professional photographers where the family lays down in the leaves and takes the pictures from above. Clearly these people didn't have squirmy one year old who had an apparent phobia of leaves.

So...after the leaf thing, we decided maybe just a nice shot in the back yard with the leaves of fall behind us. And yet again, we came up empty and threw in the towel for this photo shoot.

Then we were in Nashville and remembered this shopping area called "The Factory" where they had a giant rocking chair and thought that would make a funny/cute Christmas card picture. We tried and again it just didn't work out.

And here we are trying to get the lights to show up and didn't realize how dark it made everything else. And no, Tate didn't throw up here, just coughing but still a great look. :) So at the end of the day, we were very close to skipping sending a Christmas card out this year but my lovely wife/photographer pushed through the pain (along with Tate having to pose/be cute). As much as I like to include a picture of the whole family, I was OK to sit this one out. Maybe next year...