Family Pictures

"Just one picture where we are all looking in the same direction, preferably smiling, but I'll take mildly disgruntled if that's all I can get."

Those were the instructions I gave to the photographer we hired to take this year's family picture.  Last year we went to a mall studio (which shall remain unnamed) and the results were disastrous.  So this year we tried something new and thanks to the extreme patience of our photographer we managed to take one single picture fitting the aforementioned description.  You've probably already seen it; we put it on this year's Christmas card.  Here, for your viewing pleasure, are some of the other photos taken before, after, and inbetween posing for the real thing.

And here's the good one, just in case your Christmas card got lost in the mail.