Christmas card pictures

I don't know about the rest of you, but the pictures that go out with our yearly Christmas card can be a little deceiving. If only you could catch the whole story surrounding that picture you would know just how much it means that you see an updated picture of Mitchell and Amelia each year. We had "picture day" recently and I have to say that it did go pretty well. We only got a few moans and groans about the number of pictures (and yes, Amelia kept an accurate count and didn't hesitate to tell everyone what it was), the detailed instructions such as "Mitchell, now you put your arm around Amelia... "you are brother and sister, act like you love each other!"... and "try to make your smiles look natural, not like you are in pain!"... I'm sure you all get the picture. But as you can see we managed to get some really great pictures of our beautiful children... the hard part is picking out which one to put on the Christmas card! Hopefully you will all get the card pretty soon and see first hand just how blessed we really are. And the picture is not really all that deceiving... Mitchell and Amelia really love each other and are great friends (at least 90% of the time)!