Christmas Photos :: A Quick Look at a Simple Gift

Each year, me & the mom's club (as we like to call our little group of mothers) like to get together and have the girls photographed for their grandparents. Unfortunately, each Christmas, budgets also tend to get very tight for each of us. This year, for the FIRST TIME :), I was confident enough to give them a photograph of the girls that I took. We brought them together on a sunny day, laid down a white sheet facing one of the huge picture windows & snapped away. 

Family Photo Session!!

I could make list after list of things that I would LIKE to have. Actually lists are just my thing & i actually do have that list, but it only has three things on it, i swear. 

One of the things that just didn't make the cut, but is seriously going to someday....

a clickety thing that makes my Nikon take photos. 

You know, that thing. 

I'm not sure what it's called, but boy would family photo's look nicer with it! When we don't splurge on getting them done (we did for maternity/newborn photos early this year), I just throw down a random white sheet and snap away. 

it's fun& it's great practice. 

Busy Day// Baby Shower Invite

Breakfast usually includes making a to do list
and today we worked on the Alphabet 

Reveal Party Invite

adding a SPLASH of color in the midst of a snowy day.

I'm home watching the girls today, filling in for Dad makes me appreciate all of the things he manages to get done during the day. Although the girls laid down for a nap almost and hour and a half ago they are still trying to whisper and Lily is lecturing Brea about how she cries "every day!" What imaginations those girls have. I'm afraid that we wont be able to elmocise (nice little play on words they did there huh?) after nap since they haven't done such a terrific job. We'll see though, if they lay down and sleep for a while i'll consider it :)

During their nap and in between visits to their room to hush them down, I've been working on some of my past photography. Playing with the idea of black and white with a splash of color. It was all the rage back when but now I see that it doesn't HAVE to be the cliche eyes, although I'm guilty of adding it in to the mix. I wanted to see what other things I could highlight. Give the idea a bit more thought and creativity. What else better to do on a snowy wednesday?