Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2009

348 - 364

It's the home stretch! Almost there!

348 of 365: Pretty Lady
I took portraits of both girls this day, and this is the best portrait Olivia I have gotten to date. She's so pretty.
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349 of 365: nudity
Yep, the girls no longer where clothes. You're more likely to see them naked than to see them clothed. Please don't judge us.
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350 of 365: self portrait
Taken at work, in one of the Christmas balls I hung all over the place
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351 of 365: Santa baby
Look! Both girls sitting happily on Santa! I never thought I'd see the day!
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352 of 365: beat
taken after a long long afternoon of last minute Christmas shopping
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353 of 365: magic
These are Olivia's ornaments (I buy her one from this set every year) and I was playing around with bokeh (the circles in the background)
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354 of 365: let me sleep
Vash laid down in this baby bed I use as a prop for newborns. Olivia's the one that covered him with a blanket - so he wouldn't get cold during his nap.
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355 of 365: pensive
perhaps worred about Santa?
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356 of 365: sugar
the day I baked sugar cookies until I was buried in sugar
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357 of 365: chocolate
the day I baked chocolate chip cookies until the package of chips ran out
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358 of 365: Not a creature was stirring...
Christmas Eve, right after Santa had dropped by. I must have been on the computer and just missed him ;)
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Lets break in the 365 to talk about Christmas. Firstly, I hope everyone enjoyed theirs. We certainly enjoyed ours. This year Olivia truly understood Christmas... she understood that she was going to get to unwrap a whole lot of presents. We'll work on a better message for her later ;) So for Olivia, every time she was done with a gift, she would point to a new wrapped present and say "Owivia open nother pwesent mommy??" She was always very polite about it. Claire wouldn't open her presents, but she would sit next to you while you opened it, screaming "WHAT IS IT!??????? WHAT! IS! IT!!!!!!!!!!!!" I just died laughing.

Christmas day we started at our own home, then we drove to Upper Sandusky. In upper, Tim and I quickly realized that we had forgotten sippy cups. Olivia can use a real cup, but Claire can't (though she can use a straw) To substitute, we gave Olivia her juice in a disposable coffee cup. Hilarious!
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This image of Karen pretty much sums up all of the adults feelings of Christmas by the end...
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From there, we came back to Columbus, and went to Tims parents house. We attempted a picture of all the grandkids together, but it didn't go so well...
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359 of 365: presents
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360 of 365: Generations
Three generations of men in Tims family. Oh and Claire. Because she manages to weasel herself into many pictures
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361 of 365: snow now??
We had no snow over Christmas. It actually felt very Halloween/Thanksgiving-like in the weather department. Of course it snowed 2 days after Christmas. Thanks a lot Mother Nature!
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Since it snowed, the next day we went over to my parents house to visit Haley and Aunt Sue, and play in the show. Got to love a bundled kid.
Olivia bundled

Claire bundled

Haley and Claire

I asked Haley to throw snow, since it was such fluffy snow, and looked so cool when it was thrown.

362 of 365: SNOW!!!
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And Haley tried so hard to teach the girls how to make snow angels. Claire was really the only cooperative one in that attempt, and even that probably had more to do with the fact that she could barely move in her snowsuit.
snow angel 1

snow angel 2

363 of 365: dropped
Claire has now stopped napping. In her crib. She has, however, taken up Olivia's method of just dropping to sleep where-ever she is. Only Olivia won't leave Claire alone. So here's Olivia sitting as close to Claire as possible, while watching tv and picking a wedge. Love that kid.
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364 of 365: snuggie
I love all my presents that I got for Christmas, but it's the snuggie that gets the most attention. I love that thing. Probably because it's zebra print.
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more Olivia and Claire

342 of 365: fit
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The 9th was Claires second birthday. She got a 'Melmo' block sorter. She loves it.
343 of 365: Birthday Girl
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344 of 365: bruise
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345 of 365: looks like 80s makeup
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346 of 365: tree
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Is it possible to catch up 32 pictures in one day?

I don't know, but I'm going to try! In roughly an hour and a half, it will be December 31st, which is the last day of my 2009 365 day project. And I want to finish on time. I really do. So there might well be a blitzcrieg of blog posts over the course of this day, so that I can have a proper finish.

Our first day back from NYC, I decorated our Christmas tree. I had put the tree and lights up before we left, but saved the ornaments for when I got back. Olivia helped me (for real, not air quoted at all!)

333 of 365: Mommy's Helper
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The girls' favorite gift we brought back from NYC was their taxi cabs. They're the kind you can pull back, and then they spring forward. The girls had a ball with those.

334 of 365: TAXI!
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I love the game Pikmin, so when we went to the Nintendo store, we bought this bulborb doll. Technically for me. We knew a child would take it. Shoulda figured it would be Claire.

335 of 365: its a fwog
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If you got a Christmas card from us, you should recognize this picture. If you didn't, it's either because you're not on my list (sorry) or because it's sitting here on my counter without an address on it (even sorrier!!)

336 of 365: Christmas Cuties
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It's really sad to me that Claires winter coat is a hand-me-down from Olivia. Not because it's a hand-me-down... but because it was Olivia's FIRST coat. Olivia wore it when she was 6 months old. Claire is two.

337 of 365: Baby it's cold outside
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What can I say... Tim loves Vash.

338 of 365: Save me
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Awww, our completely decorated tree!

339 of 365: Silent Night
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25 to go!

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Gotta love my next door neighbors!

My neighbor mentioned once a while ago how she wanted to re-create images of her kids that she had done about 3 years ago. I was all for it! We figured while we were at it, we'd go ahead and take some family pictures to use in Christmas cards. So here's a break in my NYC adventure to give you the K Family!


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Went back to my roots for this one ;)
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My kids love their kids... and their youngest is just a ham. I love that girl!
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