What didn't make the cut....

This morning we went out in the back yard and worked on family pictures for our Christmas cards this year.  That is always an adventure, and even more so now with three highly active boys!  We started in the tree house, all five of us.  That's right, a family picture of everyone in the tree house.  Then it was the whole gang in the hammock, the three boys in the hammock and each boy individually in the wooded area out back.

All in all it was successful.  The biggest challenge is the whole family.  To get five people all looking halfway decent at the same time is a huge task.  Sean is especially tricky since we had the camera on a tripod and used the remote control...without somebody holding the camera he just didn't grasp where to look and who to laugh at!!  Keep in mind to get our four pictures we will use we took over 350 shots!!

So here are some of the pictures that won't be on the card....not showing which ones we did use.  The family picture was one of the biggies to get cut.  Our favorite card styles had space for four pictures, and since none of the family pictures were fabulous we just decided to skip it.   Enjoy!!!