Sunday, December 26, 2010

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year.  Santa came and left lots of yummy treats for everyone.



Levi's favorite gift from Santa was a bouncy ball.



His favorite gift from us was a car walker toy we gave him a few weeks ago as an early Christmas present.



Levi also turned 9 months old on Christmas day.


Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Holiday Season

The tree is up,



the stockings are hung,




and the Christmas lights are glowing. 



I just love Christmas decorations.  And I am so excited this year for Levi's first Christmas.  After 5 Holiday Seasons of it being just Matt and I, this will be a time to remember.  I want so badly to do all sorts of family holiday traditions.  Sadly, Levi is still a bit young for most of them.  But just the thought of having future holidays with him makes me so happy.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Family Photos

This year I wanted to send out Christmas cards with a family photo in it.  Because we can't pay to have someone take them for us I tried to take them myself.  Before I met Matt I did a bit of photography.  My graduation present was a nice camera of my fathers.  But I was more into the artistic side of it, rather than doing portraits.  





So doing family photos was a new experience for me. 



While it was fun throwing leaves up in the air to try and get Levi to smile and look towards the camera.  It was just too cold out, and too late in the day to spend the amount of time I wanted taking photos. 






 So we asked a family friend to try and take some for us.  He was so kind as to do it for free (thanks again to Ben for taking the time to do us this favor), but again the timing and weather was causing us problems.  So we had to move it indoors.




 In the end we did get some good photos, and it was difficult to decide what ones we wanted to use.  But over all it was a fun adventure for the Tandy family.