Sweet Shot Tuesday!

Yesterday I shared some not so sweet shots, but today I want to share one particularly sweet shot from my attempt at getting the perfect Holiday shot! Enjoy!

Holiday Outtakes

We all know that getting the perfect Holiday photos can sometimes take a lot of time, a lot of shots, and a lot of patience! Not every shot is perfect! In fact, when we took Benjamin out to get our holiday shots of him, we got quite a few imperfect shots, and they cracked me up! I wanted to share a few of them with you! Enjoy!

 

He was not happy that day at all… he was crying for his chex mix…

Oh me… always moving, that one!

um, yeah… that hat didn’t fit…

Chewing? Talking? No clue…

You get a lot of shots like this when you use food to keep your child happy…

See what I mean? ha!

And my personal favorite…

Happy Holidays!

Benjamin Meets Santa Claus

We did not plan on meeting Santa today. If I had thought of it beforehand, I would have made him wear something a lot cuter than his “TOUCHDOWN” sweatshirt. You know. Something more festive. Something…. Christmas-y. Good thing it was Red. Turns out it didn’t matter what the front of his shirt said because the pictures with the front of his shirt were awful.

Let me explain. In line, he was barely containable because he was so excited. He wanted to get down and he was practicing his smiles and everything (by the way, the smiles he practiced had him jutting out his lower jaw – so funny!). However, he wouldn't even LOOK at Santa and wanted nothing to do with him when we got to him. He absolutely did NOT want to sit in the chair with him. He leaned down and wanted to get down or fall out or just anything to get away. So Santa was good enough to get down on the floor with the candy canes(!) to see if Ben would be happier that way… well, not really. Pretty much every photo besides the one we chose was Benjamin attempting to get far away from Santa. There was one shot where both of them looked pretty frustrated with the situation,  ha! Should have gotten that one printed, right?!

Anyway. The picture:

No, this won’t be our holiday card, if we do send out photo cards (that is, if I get mine free). Sorry Santa, you’re just not making the cut! I’d rather have one with Benjamin smiling. But nice try, anyway. Maybe next year Benjamin will be happier to see the Jolly man in red.

At least he got a candy cane! The most shocking part was when I didn’t swoon at the price… although I sure did feel like it!