Photo Shoot and Some Christmas Pix!

I did a family photo shoot for the Klein's right after Christmas. 

The weather, alas, was miserable, and so no outdoor photos were captured 

(with the exception of me going outside and shooting some of the kids through a picture window). 

Here are some of what I captured.

For some of the images where the indoor lighting, even with a flash, 

resulted in mediocre exposure, I did some photoshop techniques just for fun.

At our own family Christmas it was all about Grayson! And we loved every minute of it. 

We plopped him front and center in the middle of my parents' living room. 

His Dad holds one of those recordable books — Poppy reading The Night Before Christmas. 

What a treasure and tradition it will be.

Harleigh's boyfriend, Kasey, joined us and had no trouble fitting into our family holiday rituals including poppers at dinner (complete with paper hats) and the singing of Christmas carols. 

He even did a requested solo without blinking an eye. Our kind of guy.

Grayson arrived for the day's festivities all decked out in a Santa hat and sporting 

a just-woke-up-from-a-car-ride look on his face.