family christmas photo

This year we decided because of yucky weather and poor planning to just take our own Christmas picture instead of having a photographer take them...so we ended up in our backyard with a tripod and timer...worked great. We got the kids and ourselves ready in our outfits and went outside took a few shots and in less than 15 minutes had our photo shoot complete...the kids were great and smiled for every picture, which I thought was amazing in and of itself...maybe this will be a new tradition for us...

fall leaves

The day after Thanksgiving we decided to get out for a while and head to our favorite bookstore/park/coffee shop hangout with the kids. It was a beautiful fall day and the kids found a huge pile of leaves in the park to dive in...so much fun.