Jingle Bell Rock...

Today we were supposed to attend Olivia's Winter Program. This morning, I was up early and was able to be productive and finish my Christmas cards. However, we had bought 32 cards and needed 37, so I was short by 5 cards and 1 picture since I had ordered 36 prints. I finished my cards, took care of the girls, woke up Tony, showered and went to Target to re-stock my cards while Tony bathed Olivia. I got home at 10ish and sent Tony to the shower after I had blown dry Olivia's hair. We were able to leave at 10:30 to pick up the last picture and get Olivia to her dentist appointment at 11. I dropped her and Tony off and found the post office to get those cards in the mail. We left the dentist at about 12:15 and were happily on our way to the Winter Program. Olivia was dressed to the nines in her christmas dress and was very excited. We made it to the school at about 12:45 and seemed to be the first ones there for the 1 o'clock start. This seemed a bit odd, so we took a look at the invitation. The program was for 10 - 12. We missed it. Oy.....

Pictures: This is from Thanksgiving-ish. Mia and Cari.Jory sportin' his super-awesome reggae dork hat.Olivia and GrandmaNo longer Thanksgiving - here's Olivia with her fairy princess wings and wand. She is very suspicious of other princesses.Mia with her remote. She loves this remote and tries to child-lock the TV over and over and over again.Olivia making one of her faces. At least she wasn't picking her nose - at least not during the picture.This one is from today. I had the camera for the program that we missed and stopped to grab a pic of Mia. She saw me and immediately came to me. This is Mia in motion moving towards mommy.
Hope that you all are having great Christmases so far!

Our 7 minute photo shoot...

So...since we are on a tighter budget this year, we couldn't afford to do professional Christmas pictures as we like to do every year. We decided to take the pictures ourselves!!! We dressed teh girls up, curled some hair, pulled on the tights, spread a sheet on the floor, and tried. We were done in about seven minutes and have sent our "keepers" to be printed so that we can get our cards out. Here are some of the "rejects"......


Olivia by herself with my assistants leg and fingers in the shot. My assistant was attempting to lure the other child back into the frame. Check out the expression on Olivia's face. Oy. Mia would not sit still, as those of you that have dealt with 14 month olds, can most likely atest to. This would have been a great picture if it weren't for the nice view up Olivia's nasal passages.Mia was very interested in her headband - when she could take it off of her head. I'm sure that my assistant was telling her '"no", hence the looking of in the other direction.Mia thought it was fun to pull her dress up and show us all the lovely detail on the inside.Ah...and the best. Mia upset and running to Mommy for condolences.

You will all receive cards with pictures in the mail. In the meantime, I hope that you appreciate our hard work in getting a few nice pictures!