Please note:

When trying to do christmas pictures of your own children..just pay someone else to do it.

We went to Walmart to get their outfits. now my mother likes to buy their Christmas outfits..which they open on Christmas morning..which is just too late. So we rented them..so to speak. Turns out both kids grew a size so I would have had to return anyways.

here are the results. thankfully I managed to just get enough half decent shots that made okay Christmas cards..but nothing I would frame
Sophia kiss your brother

our messy tree

bad bad bad

I got the ball swaying..thats pretty....cool?

hey what do you have

HAHA balls!

I need a bigger space

bad crop

 look at mommy!!!! Sophia! YOOOHOO..screw it

 too close

awkward pose

she is so pretty

 HEY! LOOK AT MEEEEE

 I had to give him the super masculine purple ball

 the only really good shot of her<3

 holy exposure batman

 much nicer in black and white

 and the final result

Now what you dont see here is my husband and I at eachothers throats..
Me: honey help!
Husband: you told me to get out of the way!
Me: Just grab the fucking wreath and dangle it above my head
Husband: Dangle dangle dangle
me: grab him!
Husband: you told me to dangle
Me: move him, I am doing her
Husband: .....screw it, I am staying out of the way
anthony crawls in front of sophia.
Me: screw it..we're done..next year we pay