Christmas Card....or NOT!

So I was thinking that this is a great time for us to get a family picture to use for our Christmas card...and just because we have like NO family pictures. However, apparently things were not meant to be. The setting was beautiful (second dam, of course):

Maybe this had something to do with it: snow in the mountains and 40 degree weather. I figured, that's ok, all we have to do is smile a few times and hurry and get back in the car. OOOps for me...that was BEFORE we had kids.

chris giving up and me and mykenzie thinking we're still in the middle of a "photo shoot"

me and jayden "chilling" (quite litterally)
so happy to be free
this should have been our first indicator that things were not going to go well...cold kids, tired kids, jaxon had been sick the day before

oh, hey, mom...cameras the other way
jaxon...where is the camera?
in my defence, I'm trying to get jayden to smile
jayden pointing to grandma (behind the camera)
ahhh, where did it go?! (mykenzie)

is there a family in that picture? jayden screaming for the freedom again
apparently that grass was exciting
jayden is DONE
jaxon refuses to climb on the bridge...he doesn't want to fall in....

and that's when we decided if we didn't have it, we wern't going to get it!

retakes are tonight after good naps :)