The worst passport photos ever

My parents will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary this spring.  And so, in honor of that, they have generously offered to take me, my two siblings, and our families (spouses and kids) to Mexico to commemorate the event.

To get there, of course, we will need passports.  While Brian and I have had them, let's face it, we haven't really been international jet setters since Caleb was born.  And so mine, with my photo circa 1990 has full expired.  As has Brian's.

Tomorrow was to be the day to get new passports.  Understandably, you have to have both parents present to get a child a passport, so with the kids off school, and us able to arrange our schedules around it, tomorrow was it.

I picked up the kids from daycare and their winter break program and we all piled back in the car to go to Walgreens to get photos to use their passport photo system.  Evidently, while you can take your your photos, that requires a white background.  At last count, we had 14 colors of paint in our home and no while walls.  (And no photo editing software either.)  So the $7.99 a pop Walgreens deal was the way we would have to go.

We get there and all haul into the store only to see about 10 signs (no joke) announcing their photo lab was down.  And would be until Wednesday.  Aaargh.

The guy told me we could drive back four miles to another location.  Um, no thanks.

I decided then and there that I really didn't care what our passport photos looked like.  And remembered that we did have a white wall in our house.  Okay, so it's the wall of the shower, but it's a wall all the same.

I don't recommend that approach.  Especially with a toddler.  Who really doesn't appreciate being stood in the bathtub in his tennis shoes and clothes.

Here is what you get.

Well, okay, the 8-year-old gets it.

Same for the 6-year-old.

The 20-month-old?  Not so much.