The Woefully Inadequate Christmas Card Picture

Every year, we receive beautiful Christmas cards from our friends, displaying beautiful photos of their children from their beach vacations. And I wanted one of these photos for our Christmas card this year! So in the beautiful clothing that I purchased and packed especially for this purpose, I prodded my freshly-showered and spiffed children down to the beach to take the perfect picture. And this is the only photo I got of the three of them.

Jon Owen was in a foul mood and refused to smile. It took Hudson three frames to walk straight into the ocean and get soaked. And Lauren insisted on over-posing in a School of Montgomery Ward Modeling sort of way. It wasn't what I was hoping for.