Showing off our attempts at a nice Christmas picture together...

Do you even know how hard it is to get a nice picture of five children together? You tell the older ones to just keep looking at the camera and smiling. Then you tell the younger ones to look at you. Then the older ones look at them to see what they are doing. Then you remind them to keep looking at you and smiling. Then you try to get the younger ones to stop picking their nose, start smiling and to look at you. Then the older ones aren't smiling. When told to smile, they complain that their face hurts. I think next year they will take individual shots and I will come up with some other creative idea for our card!

Here are a bunch of our attempts...

Oh yeah. Jenna insisted on wearing gloves and her Dora beach hat. I have bigger fish to fry than worrying about that! And yes, the first one is great after everything I took. I should have got out while the getting was good!



So after that, I told them to go nuts!



And it's not a true photo shoot moment if Jasmine doesn't pose for us!





And our finished Christmas card which turned out to be a tribute to Papa and Granny.



Finally, our picture with Santa. Jenna wouldn't go near him, even if Jordan was holding her. I wasn't going to force her so this will just be *The Year Jenna Didn't Want to See Santa*.