Christmas "Family" Picture

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We had not taken a "Christmas" picture together in three year so I really wanted to get one taken this year.  Since I have a pretty nice camera (Olympus EM-1) we decided we could do them ourselves to save us time and money.  Just last weekend I realized time was running short to get these taken and printed if we wanted to give them to family over the Christmas weekend so Sunday evening just as it was getting dark I decided tonight is the night so I curled the hair, threw on some makeup (I don't wear it on weekends), we both changed tops (we were doing waist up shots) and got busy.  I was using my iPhone as a remote to the camera so we could see the photos as I was taking them. Even doing that we had quite a few outtakes. So bad I decided to share them here:
All that to get us to these two which were the "winners"This just makes me happy whenever I look at it.We will have to try again next year to see if we can get one with both Riley and Sydney looking at the camera.Merry Christmas everyone! 

Colonial Williamsburg July 4th Weekend Visit

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As I mentioned in our Fourth of July post we decided we would be tourists this July 4th weekend since we had no plans and headed to Colonial Williamsburg on the 5th as the weather while overcast and a bit dreary was not the rain they thought might arrive.  This turned out to be a great plan as there were no crowds.  I think many of the tourists did their visits on the 4th and the locals stayed away due to the rain.Around Williamsburg We grabbed lunch at Shelds Tavern and being that it was the 4th of July weekend we had to order the All American Meal :)2016-07-03-13-11-332016-07-03-13-34-49Around Williamsburg
What a great time we had visiting the sites neither of us had seen in years and relearning much of the history we had forgotten.  It was a reminder that we need to take advantage of where we live more often and get out and see more of these historical sites.