It's time once again for Awkward Family Photos

Rule 1 of Family Photo Etiquette: Never, ever dress alike. Especially when you've chosen fabric that looks like spilled chicken entrails.

Rule 2: Try not to be too artistic, or too metaphorical, or cryptic, or disembodied.

Rule 3: Just say NO to pregnancy portraits, especially those involving trees. Only upside of this one: they have clothes on.

Scratch that.

Rule 4: Check your trombone at the studio door. I say this with no ill will because (sit down for it) I played the trombone for 8 years  in the school band (I know! Can't you just picture it) --so trombones rule, but they are not--I repeat NOT--romantic in any way.

Rule 5: No mangled-looking appendages. ("The Claw is our Master. The Claw decides who will go and who will stay...")

Rule 6: Just.... NO.

Well, at least it's not beside a trailer....