My Christmas Cuties!

We have been doing all sorts of fun Christmas things in preparation for the big day. On Monday, we headed to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa. We go every year. They have things decorated beautifully and best of all, you get a free Santa pic. Both kiddos did great and sat with Santa all alone for the pic:




We also did "Christmas Card Pictures" with both kiddos...It is pretty darn tough to get a good shot of Gaby these days...He does this super fake smile that is just horrendous...Then when he tries to correct it, he tries too hard and it is just worse. Izzie is pretty easy if you can get her to stand still...and forget her keeping a hairbow in her hair, even though I make them and she has a gazillion cute ones...she rips them out immediately! Both of them together is difficult. I see why I usually pay good money to have someone else do these shots...but I thought they turned out ok for freebies! They also had their picture made at school and we got the proofs back. The picture of them together was good so I bought it, at least I have one "professional" Christmas shot of both of them...Here are my attempts:








And here are a few of the "outtakes", just so you can see what I was dealing with :)







This morning, we did a "breakfast with Santa" with Nicole, Jackson, Wyatt and more of their family. SO much fun, thank you so much for including us. Both boys got their noses painted like Rudolph and got balloon antlers, they looked adorable!