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and then I’m taking some holiday time off (except for some newborns expected any day:))

I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas.

Cold feet…literally. Snow in Houston is quite a novelty. I’ve lived here my entire life and it’s snowed more in the last 2 years than I can ever remember…ever. It just doesn’t snow here. And now once last year and then already once this year. And this year it covered our yard, cars, and bushes within a matter of hours. And my poor 4-year-old son obviously doesn’t know how to properly dress to go out in the snow.

He walked out of his room with his jacket and a hat (luckily) but check out the shoes. And no, this in not why he had walking pneumonia this past week because he was outside about 20 seconds before he got smart on snow shoe attire and came back in to change into some better shoes:)

And here’s Cosmo who thought the snow was pretty fun! Our other dog however walked out and immmediately walked right back in.

My husband’s cousin and her family came from Missouri for a visit and one of the main things on the list to do was a family photo shoot. It turned out to be really bad timing. The day after they got here was when it snowed (I think they brought it with them) and then it was bad weather every single day they were here. We decided to at least get some of the kids indoors.

And then we found a small window of time on Sunday morning before the rain started up again.

Don’t they each have a little Mini Me?

And this cutie patootie did not want to be held back. He was full on running as much of the time as he could.

And my favorite picture. It’s perfectly imperfect:)

We did these pictures at her sister’s beautiful home and I loved the wood, stone, natural light….everything in there made for gorgeous pictures. He held his smiles for quite a while but really gave them up at the end. Hope you enjoy your peek:)

I know that my friend here in the pictures is afraid…very afraid….of what I’m going to write about her family session. And I could really torture her. But it’s the Christmas season and I guess I’d better not:) Just kidding girl! It’s always so stressful being the person in the pictures, especially wrangling kiddos that don’t want to be in the picture. And on this particular afternoon Mr. Noah did not want to be in the pictures. He ran, he told me to stop taking pictures of him, he was doing some kind of ninja moves, and he wouldn’t crack a single smile if I was in the vicinity. His mom even came prepared with candy for bribery but he is stubborn. So stubborn that the candy was right in front of him and he wouldn’t be bribed. Yet we got one of my favorite pictures of all time. It’s the first picture here…The one where his dad is chasing him. Just look at that smile. He looks so happy and adorable. And his sister is little Miss Model. So no worries Margarita…I have Drew who wouldn’t cooperate at all for our family shoot and Cassidy who won’t be bribed by candy either:)