Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Christmas Day 2014

Can't believe another Christmas has come and gone! This one was definitely more slow paced and quiet than others have been. This year it as just Adam and I and the girls that came up to my parents house. A few days before we left Lydia got really sick and I didn't even know if we were going to be able to make it up to Idaho Falls. It really broke my heart to think she wouldn't be able to enjoy Christmas.

Thankfully, the day we were supposed to leave she woke up looking better than she had the few days before so we got to drive up to grandma's house for Christmas. Claire ended up coming down with something while we were there so between the two of them we dealt with fevers, colds, throwing up, or teething the whole time we were up there. I felt bad for the girls, but they love being at grandma's house so they did still have a good time regardless.

As usual I tried to take some photos!
















One other photo tradition that I want to keep doing every year is to get a picture of both of them on Christmas morning in front of the tree with their jammies on! Since the girls were sick (Claire really wasn't feeling well) I did the best I could.

Here was my photo from last year... I can't believe how big they've both gotten. *tear*


And here is what I tried to get this year... Poor girls just didn't feel good!



The rest of the day was just spent playing with toys, watching movies, and just trying to help these two feel better. Hearing dad play the piano seemed to help lift Claire's mood!





That's all for this year! I don't even want to think about how big they are going to be at Christmas time this year... my girls are growing up WAY too fast!

Monday, December 22, 2014

Christmas "Photos"

The photographer in me always has perfect pictures in mind to get around that time of year, but it gets busy or things just don't work out. That's okay though.. because these photos show how life really is and they're perfect anyways!

One reason I really wanted these photos was because I took similar ones last year and they are my FAVORITE photos ever. The lighting and the bokeh from the Christmas tree was perfect.

Like this one.


This one.



And THIS one most of all.


SO I wanted to try and duplicate it this year again, but we moved and the lighting was different and the girls are bigger so it didn't exactly work as planned. Neither of the girls were really in the picture taking mood.  I am still glad I took them though :)

These are also could technically be Claire's one year photos as well!