outtakes from our Christmas card

Cameron and I got a real kick out of taking a family portrait for our Christmas cards this year. We had found these Santa and reindeer cat costumes at Target and I had to have them (the best $20 I have ever spent). Taking the picture required a lot of test shots with different positions, exposures, etc., using a jerry-rigged tripod of books and furniture stacked on the bed to get this angle in our tiny apartment. I know I might be the only way to fully appreciate the hilarity of this, but I have so many pictures setting this up that crack me up.








I laughed so hard everytime we forced the cats to wear these. Frankie acted like the reindeer hat rendered her incapable of movement, and would just squat underneath the table, frozen and humiliated. Finnegan went wild, spinning around like a drunk and trying to attack his own face. Getting them to pose for a picture was equally as humorous as herding cats.

The final eight exposures that were "winners":



I did feel a little guilty, but they both looked so cute it killed me. And here is the one we chose, and gave out to family wrapped in envelopes made from kraft wrapping paper: