Crazy Love Gamble-Style

The girls and I set the camera up on the tripod and had a little fun with it.  I stuck around for the first few and then let the girls take over, what could go wrong??  : ) Pretty fun!! Happy to get at least a couple of good shots.  There were some crazy ones on there for sure, lots of deleting needed to happen.  I had to cut the girls off at some point.  They loved it though so we will have to try it again in the future.  Hopefully John will be home next time so he can get in on the fun!   : )  This is my favorite of the bunch, love these little sweeties. 

By Christmas day I was a little burned out on photo taking but I got a few. We had a lovely morning getting ready for the festivities to start, we took a moment to have the girls open up a few gifts.  They were really excited to get a pair of PINK walkie-talkies from Grandpa Bob and Grandma Barbie.    They love them and have been playing with them like crazy.    We had a nice morning gathering with my Dad and his whole family.  It was so nice to see everyone.  This is pretty much the only time we all get together so it's pretty special.    Love this bug.  Auntie and Ava, they look like mother and daughter here to me.  : ) We had a nice morning, and then quickly cleaned things up and got ready for round 2.  We hosted Christmas dinner with Scott, Vivienne, Erik, Tiffani, Colton, Jessica, and Linda.  Bayli even dropped by and hung out with me late into the night. The dinner was perfect....

We actually cheated and held this event Christmas Eve morning, it just worked out better that way.  And really it doesn't matter when you do these things, as long as you can be together to do them.    Uncle Jeff!!  Sweet littles full of wonder.  Love my momma.  Grandpa John  Sisters!  Cousins!  Grandma's house is FUN!   Look at all those stockings!!  So hard to get them to all look happy and at the camera at the same time!!  Oh well, they are still cute!  The gang.  Digging in.  Santa REALLY spoils.  We are super blessed!  That look.  A new guitar?!  Jeff's drunkin facebook posts are going to elevate to a whole new level, Mark. My. Words. What a fun morning!  

 Our biggest, most favorite Christmas celebration is on Christmas Eve.  We have the most people coming together, the most food, and the most fun.  It is really great.  Linda & Kim hosted it this year, which has become the tradition.   We started out with a little birthday singing to our December birthday club.  Colton, Ava, Linda and Erik all have birthdays within the week of Christmas.   Scott sang his lovely tribute to Linda.  I love all these shots of them together!!   They are so cute!!   Love Abby!  Jan  The crazy danger girls had a blast in Abby's room.  Chris & D'Auna  Colton, Vivienne & Tiffani  Jessica & Ava  John & I  Kim, Linda & Abby  I love how happy Colton looks in this one!  All of Norah's faces.  She's so funny. ...