The Miss Elaine-ous Life

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Picture Perfect

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Simply said, we had a lovely Christmas. It was at our home and small and quiet (well unless you count the crazy noises that escaped from the 5 year old’s mouth when he saw that my mother had gotten him a zhu-zhu pet. Oh GAWD. But wait, that happened 2 days after so yeah, ACTUAL Christmas, pretty quiet.)

We ate well, as usual, and found ourselves warm by the fire and surrounded by love and nice things. So many are not as blessed. Not nearly. I prayed for them.

I focused on my children and didn’t have to worry about traveling elsewhere or how to explain Santa’s multi-faceted delivery process. Thank Goodness.

I slept 8 straight hours Christmas night into the next morning. EIGHT blessed, glorious hours. It was absolutely splendid. Merry Christmas to me!

And somewhere amongst all the wrapping paper and toys and Christmas cookies and awesome sleep, I tried to get THE picture with my new camera.

This is the best I could get.


Yeah, you should totally see some of the other ones. Or not.

But it doesn’t matter that it’s not “perfect” (or that Baby K isn’t wearing a bow and therefore could totally be mistaken for a boy but we all know she’s not so “there!”) because it’s still cute and they are my sweet, Christmas children and I’m so blessed to be their Mommy.

Really, really blessed.

I hope everyone’s holiday was as merry and bright as mine.

I SO do.

(and okay, here are some of the ever-more-not-so-good ones… I just had to, you know, for posterity and all…)

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Comments

  5. Elaine, those pictures ARE perfect! You are blessed… your children are all so beautiful AND you got 8 hours of sleep!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!! 🙂

  6. Love the finger in the nose!

    8 hours! Already! Has it happened again?

    We also had a quiet Christmas, except for the actual day when we visited extended family in Arlington and Butterfly was a pill all day long. But the rest of the weekend was just about perfect.

  9. I still think it’s a great shot…bow or no bow! Because trust me, they could still call her a boy with pink and a bow!

    Glad you had a nice, quiet Christmas.

  12. I’ve been taking literally hundreds of new pictures and only a handful are good. But that’s the awesome thing about the new faster, fancy camera – it’s easier to take a bunch and end up with something rather than nothing.

  13. It’s amazing what 8 straight hours can do. So happy to hear you were able to take advantage of the time and rest up!

    I love the photos of everyone 🙂

  14. Oh what I’d give for a glorious 8 hours – amazing!

    Oh and your precious little girl…no WAY does she even slightly resemble a boy (without a bow) – you’re crazy – she’s as beautiful as your boys are handsome.

    I LOVE all the photos – thanks for sharing…my new Nikon buddy 😉

  17. Yay new camera! Also yay bumbo seat! Jackson had that same one!

    I kinda like the one where they are all looking down.

    And G with his finger up his nose…priceless! 🙂

  18. Oh man, I hadn’t even thought about how the B Man would freak over a zhuzhu! I bet he hasn’t settled down yet!

    Personally- I kinda think the outtakes are the best part of all. ;o)

  20. I can’t even manage to get a photo of two children looking at the camera at the same time. I think your photos you took with your new Christmas present are awesome.

    Eight hours of sleep is bliss – way to go baby K and I hope this continues.

  21. Haha cute outtakes. There’s always a finger somewhere near a nose when you are photographing boys. I think the other picture is great. 🙂 Glad you had a wonderful Christmas.