December Portraits of the Girlies

The last few years, I've given 8 x 10 photos of the girls to Nanny and Papa for Christmas. I don't have a camera or any skills, and it's a struggle for me to get them done. This year I took the twins out back one afternoon while Ever was gone, and I gave it my all. Wrenzy did her best but had a really hard time making normal faces. I took a million shots and got a few cute ones, although the light was bad.

Tiny, on the other hand, was a nightmare. She would not stay still at all, ever, even for a second. I would set her somewhere, and she would just take off as soon as I let go.

She kept running toward the play car, so I finally just started taking pictures of her in it. Eventually I moved the car out onto the grass in hopes of a better background and better light. It was all very pathetic. I got at least one sort of cute one of her in the car in its original location, but then I accidentally deleted almost all the photos off my phone and lost that batch. So this was seriously the best I managed:

 

And this one must be maintained in the files because of her driving posture and cute elbow dimples:

Obviously Tiny gave me nothing remotely frame-worthy, so I had to try one more time a different day. She actually stayed put a lot better (in front of a bad background, but I couldn't deal with going anywhere beyond our backyard). She would not, however, just smile normally. I got about 100 pictures of her with her tongue out.

Better luck next year.

As for Ever, I made her pose outside a house up the street as we drove home from school one day. This was her best shot (with editing by Coco):

Love my girls.