A post in which we attempt to get our children to pose for a nice picture

Paige purchased a bunch of Groupn deals for Canvas on Demand.  She gave all of them away as gifts, except one, which she saved for us.  Which means that we had to come up with a picture of our kids worthy of being printed on a 27" x 18" canvas.

You have met our children, right?

For lack of a better place to go, we headed to the railroad tracks around sunset so I could do my best impersonation of a photographer.

"Ella, turn around.  Levi, quit bugging your sister."

"Ella.  Turn.  a.  round."

Hey, one decent one out of 22 attempts.  Not sure it is exactly what we are looking for though.

Ok.  Telling them to make monster faces may not have been the best approach.

Aaaaannnd, now they won't stop making monster faces.

"Ok, everybody walk down the tracks, like little tiny hobos"

Here we go.  Everybody sit on this filthy log, stare into the sun, and hope a train doesn't come by.

"Everybody.  sit.  still.  And Luke, quit throwing rocks."

Levi is apparently lost in the wonder that is his fingernail dirt collection.

"Everybody.  look.  at.  the camera.  And Luke, quit. throwing. rocks."

"Ella and Noah, hands down!  And Ella, what happened to your shoes?  And Luke... do not pick up that rock to throw!"

"Ok, how about this?  Everybody just turn around, and wait patiently for a train to come by.  Ahhhhhh, there we go.  A nice, peaceful, serene set of well behaved children."

(This was the one we ordered, after 116 pictures, and a little post editing)

Actually, they did pretty well.  I only exaggerate their misbehavior a little.  Canvas shows up in a few days.  Hope it looks good!