Christmas pictures yesterday

Last year, 2008~ This was our girls Christmas photo and I had them done at Sears. Now lets' compare how much they have grown.

This year 2009 You can't tell but they both grew into 2 sizes larger clothing and at least 3 sizes larger in shoes.....Well, I went to Sears Portraits for Christmas pictures again, this year. I didn't get pictures of me, with them, since recently in ALL my photos I am SO non-photogenic. I look so bloated this pregnancy and look like a racoon with a mothers mask of tired freckles and dark circles under my eyes..something I never had so long before, NO THANKS.

I like Sears Portraits..they always do a great job, for me with their well trained photographers and they never overlap in scheduling and have an amazing cost per packet. This year, it was only $7.99 for a packageof 35 photos at least 1 or 2 of each larger size . I figured we will be having a new addition to the family early this next year, so I also renewed my Smile Savers card for about 13 bucks, which gets me all those year round coupons in the mail...

Isn't Tali cute here? SHe was so Blaze about smiling that I am surprised we got any Big smiles out of her. Yet she was better than last year at least she said Cheese this time and didn't make a run for it....The photographer Elina who was great with the girls, took at least 2 dozen and it was edited down to 8 ...with smiles.

In some of these pictures, we used one of our Christmas ornaments from the tree. I liked it cause it had the word BELIEVE embroidered in the little velvet pillow with real chimey sleigh bells hanging. Lana refused to hold it, so we hung it on the window pane.

the fake Christmas background looks okay when it's done in Sepia.

Christmas Countdown