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! 

"Sparkly" Secret Santa

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The SES girls of which I am a proud member have a secret Santa exchange each year. This year Debra was my SS and sent me so many wonderful gifts including handcrafted notecards using my photography on them . Deb also knows that Jiminy Cricket is my favorite Disney character and she got me the most perfect Jiminy statue that I will treasure forever.  Thanks so much to all the SES for another year of love and friendship.