Patriotic Tree Poses

Hello, everyone!  It's me, Cammie.  Today, Maggie and I thought we'd share some of the awesome poses we did in front of our Patriotic Tree.  (Mom decorates a few different trees each year, and we always have one to honor our country and our veterans.). For some odd reason, Mom thought that posing in our Santa hats would be a good idea.

"How's this, Mom?  A jaunty head tilt."
"Do I look goofy?  'Cause I feel goofy."

Oh, sure. We ROCKED it! But was that enough for her? No. She asked us to "stay" while she took a couple quick snaps of some of the ornaments ... like this one:

A button from one of our dad's old uniforms

In the days of America's frontier Army, the women used to decorate Christmas trees with the brass uniform buttons worn by their husbands. Mom loves continuing this tradition!

But back to our poses ...

"How about this?"
"Uh ... Houston, we have a problem ..."

Maggie was having some slippage issues.  Mom snapped another quick photo:

A button from one of Mom's dad's (our grandfather) old uniforms from the United States Military Academy

Mom let Maggie switch into "bandana mode", but then ... it's like Maggie's slippage problem was contagious, and ...

"Mom?  A little help here!"
"Good, Mom.  Much less goofy."

Yeah.  Mom decided to let us both go bandana style and to quit trying to get ornament shots:

"So much better!  Big finish, Mags!"
"Wouldn't it have been easier to do bandanas from the get-go?"

I think Maggie was right.  "Bandana mode" is the way to go -- don't you?

Cammie!