I believe in Angels
This is my sweet Maggie May. We have a special affinity for angels in our family - my Grammie called us her angel babies and now she is our angel watching us from above. This is my attempt at a "tribute" shot for Grammie since we used her house for our photo shoot this day and all but a few of her angel babies had their portraits done. She would have gotten such joy out of these angel babies of ours. I know she is.
When I was pregnant with Maggie May, I had a dream that was so vivid and real that it had me shaking when I woke up. I dreamed that I was in the hospital and I had the baby. I was holding this pink bundle in my arms, and I looked up and said, "Grammie, do you want to hold Maggie?" and she was there with me, smelling of Chantilly and pink lipstick and she said to me, "Oh, Angel, she is just beautiful!" and I woke up and from that moment on I knew I was going to have a girl and I would name her after my Grammie & her mother (Grammie Foster) - Margaret May. Laugh at me if you will, but I swear that when I woke up I could smell her in the room with me.
Walker's not happy, Maggie won't smile normal, Chris doesn't know what to do, Olivia is one step away from crying again, and Will wants to hit people on the head. Yeah, this group grandchildren shot is going to be a piece of cake!
Shirt tails
So when did they stop making those dress shirt onesies - you know the kind that's a dress shirt with onesie snaps at the crotch. i can't tell you how many times we tucked this guys shirt tails in. He's still pretty adorable though, right?
Walker looks surprised
We took this picture ourselves with my new remote. It works wonderful - now if I could just remember to HIDE the stinkin' think when I am taking the picture! How obvious could I be? And poor Walker - he is in the "I can't smile a real smile to save my life" phase of childhood. I thought this wouldn't come for another 2 or 3 years. I am dreading school photos!
Me and my angels
This is probably my most favorite picture of the bunch. I look decent, the children are all looking at the camera AND smiling . It is rare.
Old Fashioned Christmas
We spent the Thanksgiving holiday with my family this year. We had a great turkey day - all the good food I love and the cousins all got to play together in Nana's new basement playroom. My mom outdid herself setting the playroom up with the help of my sisters. It was all repainted with themes on different walls, Walker got a barn scene - there's a library, a firehouse and even a puppet theater! The kids had a blast riding their scooters and playing with all the fun toys.
Friday, Walker and Chris got to go to hunting camp with Pop. They were so excited. They called us from camp to tell us that Pop had gotten them their very own TV for their room. Chris's best comment about camp . . . "You don't even have to change your underwear if you don't want to!" In addition to going to camp, they also helped pick out Nana's Christmas trees! They each picked one. Luckily, Nana has a big enough house to accommodate both of them. They were both very proud to have the trees they picked in Nana's house.
Saturday after we got the trees wrestled into the house, we headed out to do some Christmas portraits. First up was Chris and Olivia - we headed to the barn to take some "old fashioned" portraits. Both of them were so cute posing for me. Olivia gave me some great expressions! I'm glad they had fun because once we started on the inside portraits, Olivia wasn't as happy. I think she was tired of having Aunt Jen take her picture.
In addition to doing Chris and Olivia, I did my Aunt Sharon and her girls and my Aunt Lisa's boys portraits. I hope they like them. It was very difficult to wrangle all those kids into position. None of them wanted to stay posed as we had put them. And then getting Baby Brett to laugh - now I know why photographers pay for assistants that are not family : )
My favorites of the bunch are posted. I love these ones I took of Chris and Olivia in the barn door. I tried it with my kids but Maggie kept frowning and saying she was cold. Didn't make the best pictures. Of course I edited everyone else's photos first, so I'll post pics of my family later.
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to Christmas. I know we are!
