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The Christmas Card Photo Shoot of 2010

December 5, 2010 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

It will go down in family history as The Year We Hauled the Red Chair Down to the Park.

Here's how the whole thing went down:

Eric and I went on a pre-Thanksgiving cruise (on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, which I still have to write about, but that's not important right now). That very same (pre-Thanksgiving) weekend, my son, Adam and his girl, Stephanie came down from Redding.

Eric and I got home on Tuesday night. Adam and Steph were taking Lucy and Jon back to Redding with them on Wednesday. And they were driving so they had to leave relatively early in the day. Amy Kikita had to work but she didn't start until 11. And so, exhausted and bleary eyed, all of us managed to get ourselves out of bed because I wanted my Christmas Card Photo Shoot, please.

Our next door neighbor, Raphael (the amazing pro photographer) agreed to get up and shoot us. (That works on multiple levels…)

And because I didn't want us just sitting there being all "Hey, look-at-us-with-our-just-for-the-photo-shoot-Christmas-card-faces on," I insisted he attempt to get the Real Darbys.

Which is why we were NOT wearing coordinated outfits. We don't coordinate in real life, so no coordinated dressing for the photo shoot.

I had Adam and Jonathan haul one of our red leather chairs down to the park. That was quite fun for the neighbors. (Actually, I think they're used to the UDB* – *Unusual Darby Behavior.)

Card red chair

Adam got into it right away. Big red leather chair in the middle of the park? Let them talk.

Card adam in chair

Here are my men. I love this.

Card boys in chair

Then me with my girls. (My eyes were more swollen shut than usual, but whatever…)

Card girls

Then Rafe did a few of the kids.

Card photographer

How cute are they? And then….the silliness began.

Card silly

We couldn't help ourselves. It was too tempting.

Card silly 2

Way silly

We were having a blast, but none of them sang out and said "Christmas Card is me!"

Until we hauled the big red chair out into the middle of the street. That's when we really dominated the  neighborhood. These were pretty much the favorites. I liked the element of surprise it adds.

Card chair in street

But we finally all agreed on one that represented us best.

Xmas card 2010

Even with Jon melted, we felt like this was ….US!

Your thoughts? Do you have a favorite? Tell me.

Also, if you click over to TikiTiki, you'll see this same card on another post, we have a wonderful offer over there. One lucky Tiki Tiki reader will win a $50 gift certificate to Snapfish.com. It's a pretty sweet deal! Go now!

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  1. Marta M. Darby says

    December 6, 2010 at 12:12 am

    Hi Ody,I know, right? We’re lucky there is very little traffic on our street or this could have been the Darby Family Christmas Roadkill of 2010. =D
    Besos!

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  2. Marta M. Darby says

    December 6, 2010 at 12:14 am

    Do it, Vivian!Here’s an idea for you….We have friends who do a sand-sculpted “snow” man and decorate him with scarf and hat for their Christmas card pic.
    Maybe you should try getting together for this in the summer? It’s work, isn’t it?

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  3. Ody Fabregas says

    December 6, 2010 at 6:59 am

    You never seize to amaze me and always bring a smile to my heart. My favorite is the one with all of you in the middle of the street and you can see the double yellow lines on the floor. 🙂 Very unique. I love it!!!!

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  4. Vivian says

    December 6, 2010 at 9:20 am

    TOO FUNNY!!! I also like the one in the middle of the street that Ody above mentioned. Living close to the beach in Florida, I always wanted to take a Christmas tree to the beach and have Christmas photos for a Florida’s White Christmas card made with my family but can never get all of us together at the same time to do it.

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  5. Ed says

    December 6, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    UDB!!?? OMG!!! LOL!!!I’m with Ody, that one is the best!!

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  6. Marta M. Darby says

    December 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    Thanks, Ed.You made me LOL….OUT LOUD! 😉

    Reply
  7. jose s. says

    December 6, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    very cool! i also like the one in the street minus the blue house in the backround but the one you ended up with is pretty cool too. very original. but if it was up to me i would have you amy and lucy holding chickens.

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