Christmas card outtakes

On a Saturday in October I decided that we needed to head up to the canyon to get a family photo before the leaves were all gone. Many of them were gone, but we lucked out and found a few spots that still looked really pretty. We hadn't been able to find our camera tripod (still packed away in some box) so we used the tripod from our telescope which wasn't great at holding the camera. 

As soon as we entered the canyon Chase looked around at the trees and declared that we were in the jungle.  He was thrilled when we got out of the car and started trekking around on a few different trails looking for the perfect spot.  He wasn't so thrilled to sit down and take pictures though...

 

This one cracks me up, this seems to represent our entire year of chasing after Chase:

But in the end we did find a family picture that was deemed good enough for the Christmas card.  We're always happy to add to our Christmas card list, let me know if we should add you!