Snow Day
First big snow of the winter — and it’s heavy, sticky snow. The girls made snowballs, a snowman, and some kind of fort-type piece of snowy real estate before demanding hot chocolate.
I snapped this photo with my cell phone, loved it, and decided this should be our holiday card this year (yes, I’m this late ordering our holiday cards; it’s like this every year). But Chris protested; it wouldn’t look right blown up, he pointed out, since it’s taken with such a low-quality camera, and anyway, he’s always insisted we should take a picture of all four of us.
I’ve never sent out a picture with all four of us. I don’t like posing for pictures, I don’t like the way I look in pictures, and I don’t plan far enough ahead to have professional pictures taken in time for a holiday card, anyway. I prefer to send out snaps of our cute, fresh-faced girls; I figure that’s who people are really interested in seeing, anyway. No one needs to see our grizzled faces, right?
Every year I’ve gotten my way on this issue because I’m the one who actually deals with ordering, addressing, and mailing the cards. But this year, Chris dug around for our tripod, figured out the automatic camera feature on our digital camera, and rallied the troops for a shot.
So? The results:
Uncropped, but otherwise, that right there is the Official Shtemplin Family Foto.
And here, mostly for my own amusement, is the best outtake:
Happy Holidays!
