Hating The Flash

I had a beautiful picture in mind for our Christmas cards this year. So one morning I put Maya in her Christmas dress and sat her in front of the tree. I started taking picture after picture after picture and I noticed a trend of terrible luck. I either got her with her eyes closed:

looking like she got into the eggnog:

or just passed out:

I wanted to smash the camera and it's incredibly annoying flash into a million pieces. Instead I just sucked it up and ended up getting a cute shot at a party the next day.

And it only took thirty tries.