Re: Happy Holidays! Photo of the girls decked out in holiday finery :-)

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

LOL! what a fire drill eh? I'm SO glad you shared this Linda. Here I was 
thinking I had the worst trained no pictures allowed heathens this side of the
Mississippi so I do feel better knowing that it took you guys some real effort
to make them look easy! Still though, you guys and Troy, heck all of you on the
list, have such a good camera eye! I've really enjoyed everyone's pictures.
Debs

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>From: Linda Shipman <Linda.Shipman@chezor.alaska.com>
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: Re: Happy Holidays!  Photo of the girls decked out in holiday finery
:-)
>Date: Tue, Dec 26, 2000, 10:22 AM
>

> At 10:27 AM 12/24/2000 -0900, you wrote:
>>What a great picture! and doesn't Angel have the most serious look?! Did you
>>tell her that Santa was checking his list twice for Angels? LOL.
>
> It was 10:30 on Friday night.  We'd just returned from a dinner
> with long-time friends.  The girls had been left home because it's
> too cold outside to leave them in the car more than 30 minutes.
>
> I had the bows made up already.  The camera was found.  They'd
> both had their baths earlier in the day.  There was even a little
> snow/frost of the ground.  And it was the 23rd of December.  We'd
> been waiting all week to have this all come together when they
> would be somewhat groomed and clean, and it looked like winter
> outside.
>
> We bring the girls outside.  Iris runs in circles around us chortling
> and crying.  Angel is rolling on the ground and making as many
> snow angels as she can in the slight white ground covering.  How
> did we think we were ever going to get a photo when they were
> amped after a rare evening by themselves inside ;-)
>
> I try to round one up and have them sit in place.  As soon as
> I turn to the other girl, the first one starts with the antics again.
> Here it is 10:30 at night.  I'm chasing the girls around the driveway
> and loudly whispering (our neighbor's bedroom is right off our
> driveway) sit, stay, and SMILE, as I finally plunk them both
> into a sit-stay, eyeball to eyeball.
>
> First photo was them in polar fleece hats and mittens draped over
> their shoulders.  Potential for really cute <g>  Except they wanted
> to wrestle and tear each others' hats off and, of course, the mittens
> went sailing in the air.  Gave up on that :-(   Especially after we
> saw their pouting mugs when we made them sit still and pose <vbg>
>
> Angel still wasn't happy with us when we took the photo with bows,
> but I think she realized by that point that we weren't going to give up
> so she sat still for just a moment and gave us her "I'm above all this"
> look <vbg>
>
> Linda
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