Blooper Reel

By and large, we are one holiday at a time people. Christmas is not allowed to begin until Thanksgiving has been thoroughly celebrated. There is a notable exception, though: the Christmas card photo shoot.

I am a big fan of a coupon, and I always get our cards from winkflash.com. If you order by today, they are 60% off. This is a no brainer. So...we decided Friday night was the night for card making.

Issa and Evan planned the whole card this year, and I want many, many points for rolling with their creativity. The short version is Issa planned to be a Christmas tree that Evan was decorating. She chose white tinsel and blue and silver ornaments, which clearly meant she needed to be in her blue dance clothes, and Evan clearly needed to be in his blue footies--his choice. They also needed candy cane antlers for some inexplicable reason. Although the actual card photos are still classified, the blooper reel is too good not to share.

We had to get Issa mostly decorated first:

(Please ignore the fact that I am wearing Brad's sweatshirt which is way too big. I was cold and he is chivalrous.) And that was supposed to include wiring a star tree topper to her antlers. It was not going well. In this picture, I am trying to wire the star and the antlers to her leotard:

Issa was not at all sure about this:

We recruited a better engineer:

We gave up. Instead of the picture being of Evan putting ornaments on her, it ended up being of Evan putting the star on top. No wiring required.

Not to be out done, Evan decided her also wanted to be a tree:

In case you are wondering, it is possible to say, "Stand still," roughly six million times in the fifteen minutes it take to decorate a four year old for Christmas. Thank goodness the ornaments were plastic.

A great time was had by all, and these may be the cutest cards yet! And now...we return to Thanksgiving...