CHRISTMAS AND FAILURE

We got the brilliant idea to send out Christmas cards this year. We had the same idea last year, so we took this picture of us in Norway (actually, I think it was a slightly better version of this photo, but let's pretend): Then we added the caption: "HAVING A GREAT TIME, WISH WE WERE THERE." Then we printed 100 copies.

At the time, we were living in Texarkana, and the card was a not-too-subtle way of saying that we wanted out. Just a few days after we printed the cards, I got a job offer in Oregon and we were gone in a matter of weeks. We never sent the cards out... but we might this year, just to justify the expense of creating them.

But a new year requires a new picture, and nobody wants to see a picture of us without the babies, so we tried taking another picture this year. We thought we'd go for cute...But the babies kept moving around and our volunteer photographer kept moving around and creating blurry pictures. So we went a more traditional route.But I didn't like this picture because there was too much empty space around the sides and it was framed all weird and we were off center. So we took one last stab at it.But Julie was bouncing Will to keep him happy, and our volunteer photog (who really had better things to do than deal with our crap) was still a little weak on the whole concept of "framing."

After that, we gave up. I guess we have no other choice but to don matching sweaters and Santa hats and head off to the JC Penny portrait studio. There must be a better way.