This year for Christmas, we decided to get our Christmas cards done professionally. It was a very small price difference once we shopped around and ended up getting them done at JCPenny's. I had this idea of how perfect Olivia was going to be, posing for hundred's of picture's and them telling me she should really be a child model star........I could't have been farther from reality. As I walked into the mall I had a feeling of dread come over me. It started when we walked by the strollers that look like cars that you can rent for about $10 an hour. Olivia wanted to play in it in her nice christmas outfit, which was not happening on my watch! Fast forward ten minutes and I am dragging her off the mall ground (disgusting I know) as she is kicking me screaming Car! We finally make it to our store and I feel like I am going to pass out from carrying her and the baby in my belly. We get into the studio and Olivia will not sit down. No amount of bribing with smarties is working, and Olivia is terrified of the super-energetic 15 year old taking the pictures. The photographer has the idea to use props, which sounded like a great idea until I saw what she was talking about.....fake cookies. I knew this was going to end up in disaster and as soon as Olivia tried to take a bite and realized they were fake another break-down quickly followed. You can imagine how the rest of our session went, and the only pictures we got were Olivia smiling before she realized the cookies were fake, but I will take what I can get and hope you all enjoy our Christmas card!
Click on the link below to see the picture's from her session :)
https://viewimages.jcpportraits.com/sharealbum/sharealbumlist?rndId=AAMJAQVPW11ZVg==&uId=AAQEAgRAXQ==
On Friday night we headed to our very first Nashville Christmas Parade. It was so packed that Steve dropped us off and then found a spot about a mile away. Liv immediately made friends with the kids sitting next to us and one of the little girls showed her that you wave at the floats, it was pretty cute! Steve and I thought that this was going to by your typical small town parade that we were used to back home, boy were we wrong. It resembled the Macy's day parade's with the quality music played by the college bands, the large blow up balloons that were at least 100 feet long, and the actual length of the parade had to be at least 2 or more hours. After about 45 minutes we had decided to leave because it was getting so cold out and Liv was starting to nod off in her stroller. The next it started to snow and was a great surprise, it really felt like we were back in New England :) We also made cookies in the shape of gingerbread men and candy canes. Although as soon as she got a bite of the cookie dough, I am not sure how much actually got into the oven :)
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Notice the beads Olivia had to have on during the parade :)
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| Hard at work! |
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| Take a guess who made which cookies?? |
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| Saving...She's trying to look through the cookie cutters:) |
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