It’s inevitable every year.  I don’t get around to posting my holiday pictures, whatever holiday it may be, until well after the holiday is over.  I have excuses a plenty–and I think they are all pretty valid . . . over twenty four hours of driving, stomach bugs, family members from all over the country, photo sessions, edits, life.  It’s a good thing I didn’t resolve to having life slow down this New Year’s.  I would’ve already fallen short of any goal.  We will keep hang on to that one for retirement 🙂

We spent Christmas Day in Buffalo.  Brayden’s excitement could barely be contained, and Carter caught on quick enough.  If there was one tradition that I could say we definitely have had since I was little, it would be that we always open stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve, after our church service.  My mom delights in getting an assortment of fun goodies and wrapping them all up–we each have a drawstring sack

that they get put in.  Then she recruits my stepdad to wrap them all with her.  I think the whole thing makes her giddy 🙂