Shiny Happy People

About every other year, I make a consorted effort to have family pictures taken.  Now if you know me, you know that having pictures taken with me in them is on one of my top 10 lists.  Like top 10 Insects I'd rather eat than have my picture taken, or Top 10 things I would bungee jump off of to avoid having my picture taken.  Unfortunately my kids have acquired my same distaste for picture taking.  Now as much as I hate having my pic taken, I do love having pics of my babies.  They are pretty darn cute.  So here is how this goes.  See if you can relate.  A couple of months before family pics I take a gander on Pinterest looking for family pic outfit ideas.  A month before said pictures I comb several stores looking for the perfect outfits.  Think J Crew meets the quirkiness of a Taylor Swift video.  This year was no different.  I had the outfits and we were set to have our pictures taken at our house.  We have a creek out back, and I knew that it would make the perfect setting.  Well, the kids were NOT having any part of the outfits I had picked.  Que the sad faces.  So, in a moment of crazed genius, I came up with a plan.  I instructed the kids to take off the clothes that I had bought (bye bye J Crew catalog).  They were to both pick out whatever they wanted to wear.  The only criteria was that it was something that represented them and that they felt really good wearing it.  The same rules applied to the Hubster.  So, this year if you get a Christmas Card from us take a good look at our outfits.  You will not see a perfectly matched family.  We do NOT look like we belong on the cover of a J Crew magazine.  But you know what?  In real life we aren't always perfectly put together either.  This is us.....pretty much.  But what I do hope comes through in the pics is that we are a family that loves each other.  We know that laughter sometimes is the best medicine......and yeah we are kind of crazy when it comes to our pets.