Christmas Jammies

Here they are posing in their new Christmas Jammies they get to open on Christmas Eve. Notice Maddie's mismatched socks. It's her own little style mark since she seldom has matching socks.

New Nephew

Here's our new nephew. He was born just after Thanksgiving. I got to take pictures of him. He didn't want to snooze too much at first but once we put him in the basket he was really cozy. He's adorable with lots of hair and great cheeks.

Christmas Cards

So I took pictures of a few other families for their Christmas cards but I realized about the middle of December that I didn't have any for my cards. I quickly threw something together to take some pictures but I didn't have very much light to work with, or backdrops for that matter since I tend to shoot outside, and Emma would not cooperate. When I say would not cooperate I mean not even for a second really. Here are a few of the photos. Not the best but better than nothing. I put up a black sheet and put some Christmas lights, you know the netting kind. I'd seen this technique somewhere and wanted to try it. Didn't quite get it but it was worth a try. For the card I ended up changing the pictures to black and white because their skin coloring was pretty weird in most of them.

More to come....

Tree Hunting

We were a little slow getting out tree this year because we didn't think Emma would leave it alone once it was up but she proved us wrong and didn't even touch it once it was decorated. Here we are picking out the tree.

Basketball

Ethan played basketball this year and he loved it. His games were every Saturday at 8 am and each Saturday he would get up before any of us and get ready. He would come into our room with his jersey, shorts, and shoes on with a basketball under his arm and tell us he's ready to go. Too bad it would often be around 7 am. It was pretty funny to watch and his poor team would lose big time every game but he didn't care. Ethan was really good at dribbling side to side across the court...not so much towards that basket. He did get one awesome shot in for the season. It happened to be in the last game of the season at the buzzer. Yep he had a buzzer beater.

Catching Up! Halloween

I didn't even blog about Halloween so here it is. Madelyn was a dead cheerleader (despite my coaxing to be a cute one), Ethan was a Jedi Fighter, and Emma was Piglet. In the top corner picture is the whole gang that went trick or treating with us. Then below that is a picture while trick or treating at grandpa's house.