Photo shoot of Three - OR How NOT to make a Christmas Card.

It seemed like a good idea in theory. Take a photo of my 3 little goats to use for our Christmas card but in actuallity - it wasn't a good idea at all.

The props, 3 stockings, a Santa hat and scarf, a couple of ornaments and the goats favorite stand to crawl on. 3 people to man handle the goats and take the photos and 3 dogs to help keep herd.

Tuffy didn't mind wearing the scarf. Tuffy is the smallest of the 3 goats and quietly moves around the other two - he usually gets his way, just the other two Lula (my only little girl) and Billy as in Billy the Bully.

And after a bit of a tussel it was decided that Billy would wear the Santa Hat instead of the 3 Christmas bulbs that were attached (at least a dozen times), to his horns.

While getting Billy ready Tuffy and Lula thought it would be fun to play in the barn and on the hay bales.

So Jeff decided to entice them with a little grain. By this time Lulu had a small wreath on her head and Bill had a large wreath around his neck. But poor Tuffy, no one would let him on the stand.

Nor would they let him eat.

So he started munching on Billy's wreath.

Which had fallen around Billy's chubby tummy. Tuffy did make it to the top but the other two, by then were off. Copper, lower right was trying to herd them but they wouldn't listen. Deuce and Nugget (the two horses) wanted to get in on the fun but alas they were on the other side of the fence.

So I thought "Why not see if we can get a shot of the 3 horses." By then Tuffy had managed to get the stand all to himself and well to also moon the camera man...or lady as the case may be. My daughter Brandi, when not laughing, was taking the photos. So Deuce was to get a scarf around his somewhat chubby neck.....

...and Nugget got a smaller wreath on her ear as the large wreath wouldn't go over her long nose.

And they were looking pretty good, except Deuce looked like he was choking and Nugget looked like she was trying to talk and we had yet to get Hickory (the 3rd horse) into a photo.

So Jeff suggested a photo from behind as no one cared if they had a scarf and ribbon on their tails or a Santa hat on their rump. He had to give Hickory a little shove to fit his bum into the photo and then...

And then, there you have a "tail" of 3! 3 Goats, 3 Horses, 3 humans taking photos which took about 3 hours and this was the best we could get.

Merry ChristmASS to all!