Annual "Family Christmas Picture taking" tradition

Well, it's become a tradition of 5+ years. Whomever receives a card from the Seiter's will see us either in front of our fireplace or our tree.

This picture is taken using a tripod and the self-timer on our camera. Jeff gets us all situated and begins the self-timer and runs to join us in the picture.

As one can imagine, using this rather slow method of picture taking with 3 young boys, carries it's own challenges. Although I'm not proud to admit it, we're not above using food bribes to obtain the behavior conducive to cheerful pictures. This year, after our serious pictures were completed, we had a little fun with it. Below is a sampling....

Jeff uses Mom and boys to get the camera aligned



The final serious version we chose


now the silly-ness begins

Yes, Taylor does have underpants on under his shirt :)







And, finally, Christmas pics wouldn't be complete with "Noah Elf" pics!