Thanks Christine and Michael. Asia has been doing a good job of being a husk-nurse (as Ivan calls her now)

Well, we attempted our Christmas pictures and I'm pretty disappointed. This is not what I had in mind, but at least some came out cute! My original idea was to take them at the park, but with hubby's surgery we were kinda limited

Asias 1st Holiday season with us! So blessed to have her



With my handsome boy <3





Did you say TURKEY?!!


The best we could get for our family pic


BFFs


Our babies


Mya...aka...batmannn!


Kody kisses


Forgot to take off the damn sheet!

The "Our Babies" is really good: lighting, expressions, color.

In my experience, it's really difficult to get both dogs and humans looking their best in a picture.
Usually the people look great, but the dog has his head down, or the dog is smiling, looking right at the camera and some damn human is blinking.
So, you've got to take about a hundred to get 2 or 3 acceptable pictures.

How is Ivan doing?. Is he able to sleep?

Which is exactly how it happened, Michael! LOL!!! My brother took about 40 of the family pics, but this was the best one. Obviously the rest weren't great. The "our babies" took us a good 35min...lol.

Ivan's doing better, but frustrated because he's very limited in what he can do. He hasn't left the house in a week! He has a doctors appointment on Tuesday when they'll take xrays and hopefully they'll say that he can take the brace off. He still has another 6 weeks on crutches, but at least no brace. He sleeps horrible. Can't find a comfortable position, gets cold sweats, and his back hurts

The pictures turned out great Melissa! I agree with Michael, the Our Babies picture is my favorite!

You (like always) look gorgeous in the pictures

PS. I love the bandanas!

WOW I love out babies picture you got all of them to smile. The pictures turned out good. You look great..

I am glad Ivan is doing better it is just going to take time. Maybe by spring you can get your brother to take some family pictures out side with everything in bloom.

I love Maya's turkey face!!!
They all look good, I took about 50 of ours before settling on the best, and its not nearly as good as the one of your three! They are all so photogenic! And so are you!

They look great Mel! At least yours didn't cause a fight. I had to give up on mine.

Mya's Batman pic is adorable and I can't get over how big Kody has gotten! The three of them outside is my favorite as well.

Melissa you look gorgeous and the pictures are great! Anna hates pictures so I can only imagine how family pictures for us would go. She would just close her eyes purposefully every picture! I love the our babies and the family pictures they are great! The last photo makes me laugh though because they all look miserable like when are we going to be done with this!

Thanks guys! I wanted to try and take another round of family pics, but Ivan wast having it. He's lost so much weight, is really pale due to not leaving the house, and can't wear normal pants b/c of the brace. He didn't even want me to include the pic with him in it, but I told him that I was going to no matter what he said.

He wanted to take pics of me and babies and exclude him. Ummm, no. He has to be in at least one!

Those pictures were so adorable! I love bandanas on my kids as well! At first my husband was telling me not too, but now he likes them on Kira. He says they fit her body! But great job with your photo shoot!

Thanks Angelina!

Np Melissa!

I want to blow one of these up, but can't decide which one!

This one?

MelissaI wrote:

Our babies

OR this one?

The actions in the second one are cuter, but I like the composition of the first one overall.

I think all your pictures are great! It probably takes other husky owners to understand how difficult it can be to get a decent picture. Ava usually gets frustrated at some point and throws a tantrum and then I know we're done

I love the second picture too. Its my favorite of them

I like the second one! Their faces are too cute!

I think why you had a difficult time is because you did it when having a bunch of people over and they were probably just overly excited with the company! I can get mine to calm down, but them when it's just us vs. when my family visits or Jarod's soldiers... crazy energy change. It's like when kids are out in public and act like brats and show off, haha.

Myndi, and people are always like "omg your dogs are so photogenic". If they only knew

Heather, that was totally it. They absolutely adore my parents and brother so they were way to excited! We tried again later at night, but then they were sleeping. If we would have done it at the park after walking around a few times it would have been much easier!

I like the first one of the two.

I like the first one of the two also.
Really love the husky smiles!

Melissa, why don't you use one of your family shots from the summer?

Hmmm, I think I might go with the first one because Kody is leveled with the girls. In the 2nd picture he looks lower and he's bigger then them. Or i might just blow them both up and see!

Michael, that's what Ivan suggested, but I look like crap in those. Hair isn't done. No make up. Haha! Normally I don't care, but for cards I have to be somewhat dressed up

I like the second one better! It's soooooo cute!

I'm picking it up today. Can't wait to put it up!

Daddy cuddle time for the diva



They are so attached! Notice the eaten bed?



Comfy much, Kody?



Wow..lol

I love that last picture!