Christmas day....

I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Christmas with your families! Ours was fabulous. This year I brought my camera with me the whole day instead of just our Christmas morning! So this is a large post!

Here is Christmas Eve...

Making cookies for Santa...




For Santa and the Reindeer's...



Haylee's letter to Santa...



Christmas morning...

Santa & the Reindeer's were very hungry...



The goods...



The first looks...



Opening stockings...



Fun with lip gloss...



Poor Lily in her crate while we opened presents. I gave her a bone but she didn't want it and kept hiding it under her blanket...



The candy pooping cow...



Eric opening his gifts...



Avyree wearing what Sissy bought her from her School Shop...



Haylee in action...



The skateboard she wanted...



Avyree in action...



My gifts! I LOVE Jack!



Haylee opening her BIG gift...her Nintendo DS...


Avyree loving her gear...


From happy to Avyree...



Silly Nugget...



Avyree with her Dora Princess that she wanted...



Haylee's glued to her DS and Super Mario Brothers...



The joyous mess...



I kept the clothes on her as long as I could...



Eric playing with his BIG toy...PS3 & UFC 2009...



Then we headed to Grandma Louie's for breakfast like we do every year! Here are some pics from our morning.

Aunt Doni & Logan...



Avyree & Katie...



Logan...


The Anderson's...



Haylee & Grandma Louie...


The family...



Then we relaxed at home for a while before heading to Aunt Doni & Uncle Dana's for dinner...





The great gran kids... Haylee, Avyree, Logan & Marcus...



The little ones being SILLY...



The yummy food!



Three generations! Uncle Dana, his son Dustin and Dustin's son Marcus...


Shannon & Grandma Louie enjoying dinner and relaxing after...



Mother & son and funny cousins...


Grandma Louie, Allan & Haylee...


The Family! Oh...any art you see on the walls at my Aunt & Uncle's house was painted by my cousin Lauren. She's the most talented person I know! Her paintings are stunning and moving!

Thank you for breakfast morning Grandma! It was wonderful as always and I appreciate your hard work to keep our tummies full and our hearts happy! And thank you Aunt Doni for hosting your very first Christmas dinner that was LOVELY! The best in years! And thank you to my family..I LOVE you ALL!

Thanks for taking a glimpse into our Christmas celebration. It was one I hold very dear to my heart!

We went camping in the desert for New Years and I took HUNDREDS of pics, so I'll post some when I get them done!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :O)

The girls with Santa and some others...

I took the girls to see Santa and they let me snap a couple pics with my camera while I was there. I was surprised they actually let me. If there hadn't been 5 BILLION people in line {we were the 1st} then I would've taken more than 3 shots. The ONLY shot I got of them looking at my camera, Haylee was blinking. I wish I'd shot continous! Oh well, here are the other two I got. Haylee asked Santa for a Nintendo DS and Avyree asked him for a Dora Princess...



And here is Avyree putting a "Mole" on her face with her Gummy Vitamins. This one is special for Bina! :O)


Just a random cute shot of Nugget....


And Haylee. This is the look I get more than any other look! Lol!


Happy Holidays! Stay safe and be loved! :O)

The Ziggy girls....

My beautiful Haylee actually let me take more pictures of her!





And cute silly crazy Nugget...








Our favorite Christmas decoration...



A beautiful cloudy sunset. If only I didn't have the power pole/lines in my way!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS and thanks for looking!

Thankful Thursday...Dec 10, 2009....

I keep forgetting to do this! I want to try to do it every Thursday. More just for fun, but a pic is wasted if not posted! Lol! So here is what I'm thankful for today! MMMMmmmmm..

The Wards...Sneak Peak 2...

Here is a sneak peak of the 2nd half. I truly enjoyed this shoot and editing. Thank you Ward family for allowing me the honor to capture your family! I love you guys more than I can say! OXXO

Catching up...

This will be a large post!

I shot a lot over the summer but didn't edit them until recently. So I'm going to do one large post and share lots of pics over the summer.

This was our trip to Chuck E Cheese at the beginning of summer. The girls had so much fun as you can see...




Then Bina & I took the girls to Venice for the day for some fresh air and sunshine! Venice is always an interesting place to shoot!








And here are just a bunch of random shots over the summer that I took...

The next three were at the beginning of summer when we put our pool up. Look, Avyree's still in diapers! The many expressions of Nugget...





Only Avyree....


Fun at the park!


Sweet beauitful Des on the last day I offically watched her! We miss her so!



Give a child some sunshine, a tennis ball a water bottle and they can play all day! Oh to be young again!


This is what happens when you give a 3 year old makeup! Thanks Kathryn! Haha!


This kid just kills me!


Outside in the front yard near sunset. The light is so beautiful at this time of day!


This day Haylee was actually willing to let me take some shots of her!


These next four were actually taken Halloween morning/day but I had to put them somwhere! :O)




And I do realize that I have many more pictures of Avyree but it's not on purpose! Haylee is getting to that age where she doesn't like me taking pics. So it's rare that I get shots of her these days! I'll have to start shooting more candids and duct taping her to chairs to get pics! Ha!

So this is a little glimps of what our summer was like! No better time to post summer vacation pics than near Christmas! Ha! Happy Holidays! :O)