Merry Christmas 2014

We had a great Christmas this year.   A full Christmas Eve was celebrated with a brunch with friends and some good baby snuggles with Scarlett.     That afternoon we headed to church for a good holiday service with Deana's family and Christine.   Afterwards we opted for some festive Japanese food and present time back at our place.    Our Christmas day was as slow as we've had in years in that we only spent it with our immediate family for the whole day.   We kept it simple since we were leaving \town by 7 am the day after Christmas and heading up to Maine for a week.  And in the holiday hustle and bustle we hadn't gotten packed!    It was a wonderful day spent in our jammies and eating lots of munchie high calorie foods with just each other.    We made special memories and once again,  another great one for the books!    Merry Christmas! 

Better then Sears!

 Of course we had to include "La-La and Sarah"

 "are we done yet Mommy?!""......"NOPE!  Keep walkin!"

 "No.  More.  Mommy. "

I have taken our kids faithfully to Sears every year for portraits since the kids were babies and they always did such a fantastic job.  But they went out of business so I was falling behind on official annual portraits.  Of course I'm always taking pics of the girls but I wanted some good age portraits to capture where they are now.   We got a very warm fall afternoon this year and so I began the walk by promising them gourmet cupcakes if they agreed to tolerate me and my camera for an hour.  They were amazing and we all three had a blast playing up and down our favorite greenway.   I couldn't have been more pleased with how they turned out and we WILL be bribing future portrait sessions with mommy with huge cupcakes in our future.  I only wish I had snapped one picture of them chowing down on their well deserved sugar at the end of this day.   But that will have to be my personal memory.    Love these two!!!!