Attempting to take a Christmas photo

The one we thought would turn out the best, but it was horribly blurry.

This one we even got Henry in, but he's about to claw off Jav's leg. We really wanted to get all the pets, but discovered that it is impossible. And blurry. What's the deal?

Here's the happy photographer and one subject while everyone was still in a semi-good mood.

We might have used this one if not for the chair behind Jav's head making him look sort of Frankenstein-ish. And it's blurry. You can tell Gabriel is already losing patience by now.

We thought about using this. It was the best picture anyone took all day. Zoe always photographs well.

This is poor Molly after about the 10th try.

The last attempt - Gabriel is so fussy and sleepy by now, Molly looks like she's taking a bite out of my arm (can you blame her at this point?), and, once again, it's blurry.

We discovered afterwards that the camera had lost all of it's settings when Jav replaced the battery the day before. But by then we were all just too tired and cranky to try anymore. I'm going to try to get a good one of Gabriel today. If not, our Christmas cards may be pictureless this year. Moral of the story: Get started earlier than the week before Christmas next year.