Playground fun time!

I love Adele’s jacket. I kind of wish it came in my size.

Santa brought the kiddos cameras this year. As you can imagine, Christmas morning is incredibly well documented.

I don’t know what I love more about this picture – that Claire is already on board with the arms-length self portrait, or Ben’s little tongue sticking out while he concentrates!

**Please bear with me while I backpost and catch up on December!

Jackie is 100% ready for Santa…and she’s been a perfect angel this year!

That face is the one Dad makes when he’s trying not to cry.

Almost all of the family was together tonight to kick off holiday festivities with a dinner to celebrate Mom and Dad’s 40th Wedding Anniversary! Because their anniversary is two days before Christmas it tends to get swept under the rug and forgotten about, but you can’t let that happen for 40. You may remember the photos we had shot when we were all together in August – they were Mom and Dad’s anniversary gift this year (pulled together in an album for them, and of course all the images to print/use as they see fit).

Dinner was amazing – we went to Praline Bakery & Bistro and I can’t recommend it enough. The service was some of the best I’ve ever seen. The food was delicious. They even offer a perfect kids menu. Dessert…well, “Bakery” comes first in their name, so I’m sure you can imagine that if the food is delicious, the dessert was even better!