Merry Christmas!
Believe it or not, last week I finally did my own children's Christmas pictures. It has been such a blessed, busy season for photography, I have literally not had the time to do my own children's "photo session" ! 
So, at 9:15 pm (yes, that is 9:15 pm on a "school night" , the night before the deadline for turning in holiday card orders to Keepsake Designs , the new company I am using for photo cards) I tell Maya & Carlie to get on their Christmas jammies and get by the tree. No studio lights, no setup or props. I only had time for an old-fashioned snapshot that required some "parental bribing" ! This bribing included allowing them to have Dairy Queen if they cooperated. Well, they cooperated but my camera didn't! After a few shots, I realized my battery was completely dead! So, I had to charge it. So, Larry (husband/daddy) drove them quickly to Dairy Quenn to get the "bribe", on the premise that we would continue the "photo session" when they returned. At 10:15pm, with a slightly charged battery, we were shooting away again. This lasted until around 11:00pm because now we had some pretty tired babies on hand so the cooperation was a little slow. To all my parents out there whom I have done photo sessions with...no, I do not have that same patience with my own children. I do try though...here is a few shots of why I was losing that patience. it's funny now....
Ah, yes...there were many of these shots!
Needless to say, we did manage to get a few worthy of sending out on our Christmas card. Although I was tempted to add one of these silly ones just to make the card more "real life" , if ya know what I mean. So I did get my photo card order in on time and although many of you will be receiving it on Christmas Eve, you will get to see the "final cut". (Heidi at Keepsake Designs did a great job as usual designing the card...you should check out her website, www.keepsakedesigns.net , her designs are beautiful and reasonably priced.)
But wouldn't you know it, that only two days after I ordered my cards, a beautiful snowstorm came to the St. Louis/St. Charles area and had it been a little earlier, I could've used the snow outside for our backdrop. Oh well. We actually drove home from a family Christmas party the night of the second wave of snow and as we were unloading out of the car around 9:00pm (again), I literally told the girls to run over in front of the house so I could shoot a few in the falling snow. So since those won't be on my Christmas card, I will share a couple of those with you now...
Notice the snowflakes showing up as white spots in the picture...pretty neat...it was a pretty night!
And no, I didn't "torture" them long...only about 5 minutes this time!
Well, that is all I have for now. I have so many pictures from the last couple months that I want to share with you, but as you know these next few days are crazy...so hopefully I can log on to touch base with you all after the holidays.
I wish you all a wonderful Christmas with your family & friends!
' Til next time,
Julie
So, at 9:15 pm (yes, that is 9:15 pm on a "school night" , the night before the deadline for turning in holiday card orders to Keepsake Designs , the new company I am using for photo cards) I tell Maya & Carlie to get on their Christmas jammies and get by the tree. No studio lights, no setup or props. I only had time for an old-fashioned snapshot that required some "parental bribing" ! This bribing included allowing them to have Dairy Queen if they cooperated. Well, they cooperated but my camera didn't! After a few shots, I realized my battery was completely dead! So, I had to charge it. So, Larry (husband/daddy) drove them quickly to Dairy Quenn to get the "bribe", on the premise that we would continue the "photo session" when they returned. At 10:15pm, with a slightly charged battery, we were shooting away again. This lasted until around 11:00pm because now we had some pretty tired babies on hand so the cooperation was a little slow. To all my parents out there whom I have done photo sessions with...no, I do not have that same patience with my own children. I do try though...here is a few shots of why I was losing that patience. it's funny now....Ah, yes...there were many of these shots!
Needless to say, we did manage to get a few worthy of sending out on our Christmas card. Although I was tempted to add one of these silly ones just to make the card more "real life" , if ya know what I mean.
So I did get my photo card order in on time and although many of you will be receiving it on Christmas Eve, you will get to see the "final cut". (Heidi at Keepsake Designs did a great job as usual designing the card...you should check out her website, www.keepsakedesigns.net , her designs are beautiful and reasonably priced.)But wouldn't you know it, that only two days after I ordered my cards, a beautiful snowstorm came to the St. Louis/St. Charles area and had it been a little earlier, I could've used the snow outside for our backdrop. Oh well. We actually drove home from a family Christmas party the night of the second wave of snow and as we were unloading out of the car around 9:00pm (again), I literally told the girls to run over in front of the house so I could shoot a few in the falling snow. So since those won't be on my Christmas card, I will share a couple of those with you now...
Notice the snowflakes showing up as white spots in the picture...pretty neat...it was a pretty night!
And no, I didn't "torture" them long...only about 5 minutes this time!
Well, that is all I have for now. I have so many pictures from the last couple months that I want to share with you, but as you know these next few days are crazy...so hopefully I can log on to touch base with you all after the holidays.
I wish you all a wonderful Christmas with your family & friends!
' Til next time,
Julie
Man I can't believe how much they look alike
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Hi Michelle!
Of course I don't see it as much as other people do...until that is, I look at their older pictures and it takes me a minute to remember who is who...
Have a great Christmas and a safe trip back home. We will try to call ya!
Julie
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Julie: I loved reading all you wrote. I know how you are with your girls and I would have loved to have been there when you made them take all of these pictures. Poor Larry, he is the one I feel sorry for. Hey, Lar, hang in there, wait until she is taking their prom pictures. Happy Holidays to you. I love you Maya and Carlie, hugs and kisses, Miss Kathy
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Don't feel to sorry for Larry, Kath! He gave up after a five minutes and went in the other room!
Enjoy your Christmas with your (grown-up) babies!
Julie
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Love the pictures -- the girls are beautiful. At least they weren't "flaring their nostrils"
Merry Christmas!
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Julie-
I meant to comment earlier but these pictures are precious...all of them! I love the candidness (if that's a word!
Thanks for sharing!
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