Friday, February 20, 2015

Fall Family Photos

Family photos always stress me out!  This year I knew I wanted to mix lots of colors and patterns in our outfits.  So after buying double outfits for everyone, I finally landed on the perfect four and made lots of  return trips to stores.
Briana with Shades of Gray Photography did an awesome job capturing our family!!  Sylvie started off shy with someone other than me behind the camera, then quickly got out of it and worked it like normal.  Please note how she kept holding her tunic out like it was a princess dress in half the photos.  I about died when I realized she'd been doing that!  Such a ham! We warned Briana she wouldn't be able to get a grin out of Magnus and she proved us wrong!  He was a wild man and did not really want to be still but his personality ended up really shining through. 
Here are just a few (a ton) of my favorites!!

Friday, February 6, 2015

Merry Merry Christmas

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas full of family, laughter, excitement and a lotta love!
Christmas Eve was spent with my side of the family at our home.  It was so fun to host and all of the kids were beyond excited to get the holiday started.  After the fun filled day we squeezed in a nap for Magnus then headed to Christmas Eve service where the kids got to participate by being angles and shepherds.
I loved the joy of the kids running down the steps Christmas morning to see what Santa had brought for them!  Magnus just followed Sylvie's lead and jumped right in!
Next we packed up and headed down to Windsor for the Erdmann family Christmas!  The kids were pros at opening presents by this point.  It could not have been a more perfect Christmas!