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The existence of this card is a Christmas miracle!  Firstly I had arranged for a friend to take pictures of the kids, but then sadly her computer crashed and without the ability to edit pictures she was out of commission.  So then I made an appointment at Picture People for a Friday afternoon.  It was a perfect plan.  The kids were dressed in their matching snowmen shirts, they were rested and fed.  So off to the mall we went.  We had lots of time before our appointment so we paid a visit to Santa first!  Not surprisingly Luke did not want to have anything to do with St. Nick, but Katie and Jack gave a decent smile and manged to voice their Christmas wishes, so we got that ticked off the list.  So off to Picture People we head.  Thankfully they had us in the back studio and not the one on display for the entire mall to watch.  I can almost laugh at it now, but at the time  we were in picture chaos.  Trying to get Katie and Jack to sit nicely and just be ready for when Luke was actually doing as he was told was impossible.  The kids thought it was a big game, Andy and I thought who are these children.  The big kids thought it was just a big game and were having a great time playing with Luke, who would say cheese, but never at the camera.  There was fighting, tears, threats and eventually we just left.  It was silent on the way home and the kids were just sent to bed wearing their Christmas PJs we tried to get a picture of them in .  So the next morning since they were already dressed, I attempted one last time to get a picture for our card that is already going to be going out horribly late.  Well after messing with the camera setting and getting some great shots of the kids but with the wrong setting, I finally got a useable picture!  I am sure years from now we will have forgotten the whole debacle and we will look at the above picture and say what a joyous time it had been!