I tried not to stress this year for pictures.  Heaven knows that I am already filled to the brim with it–with responsibilities and moving and all that jazz.  So I grabbed a couple of big ornaments, my trusty Squirt crate and drove to a little park a couple minutes away.  Brayden was a champ.  Carter was not.  I told myself that I didn’t want to do any more than fifteen minutes, and I stuck to it.  Twenty mini-marshmallows later, I figured I had done just about the best I could do with an uncooperative twenty-one month old and we called it a day (even though it was only like 8:30 in the morning).

I was thrilled about the weather.  It was in the high sixties!  So no worries on my boys not wearing socks and shoes. . . it was pretty warm out 🙂  I guess when my mother-in-law from Florida reads this, she might freeze just thinking about ANYONE being outside with no shoes on when it is sixty degrees.  But that’s only because her New Hampshire blood has thinned in the sweltering Florida heat.  🙂

And I do have to admit. . . it’s a great thing not having to hire someone to take the holiday pictures 🙂  That’s sure a bonus to being a photographer.