Day 10 of 23

My newest nephew, James, born today to my sister.  Welcome to the world James, I so wish I could be there to kiss those sweet cheeks!  We can't wait to come meet you.

Day 9 of 23

I love this picture!  My nephew, playing in the leaves in October.  No post editing, shown as taken, makes it even better!  

Day 8 of 23

Day 7 of 23

Ahhh, Christmas Pictures...I love taking other people's, but my own children.  Honestly!

Fionn still doesn't know about the lights, even at 19 months.  Even though I can take his picture any other time; when it counts, when it matters, he is a bear.

This is Mag, hamming it up after we "attempted" our family pictures last night.  More to come from this fiasco, I'm sure!

Day 6 of 23

Back to Omaha for today.  We cannot leave out Mr.A.  He is the nephew of a good friend of mine, and I was so excited to get to photograph him.  I got to see Mr.A every day I was in Omaha (I think) and he was a total ham.  On Saturday he even rocked a little Cornhusker t-shirt before the Nebraska game.   

Day 5 of 23

Today the princess graces our countdown yet again.  I couldn't show you pictures from our Christmas Tree hunt without showing you Maggie.  She is now a pro at finding the perfect tree!  She knows what kind of tree we like, she knows the shape of the tree, and how full we like it.  We had a couple good debates this year over our tree.  Usually we can convince her to keep looking after a few minutes, but there were a few she was pretty insistent on.  The only reason we kept moving was because Fionn pulled rank and ran off, so we followed as good parents do.  This picture was on our ride back with our tree.  That's our tree right there in the background, all bundled up.  She was so excited that we got it and were headed back to the hot cocoa and cookies!  We hope you all had a great weekend, and that you got a little bit of snow wherever you are too.  It was the perfect compliment to our weekend. 

Day 4 of 23

This weekend we did our annual trek out into the country to get our Christmas tree.  This is really Fionn's first year of "helping" pick our tree out.  He had so much fun playing in the snow that fell this weekend.  Really it made it a PERFECT day to go out and find our tree.

From our first Christmas here in Pittsburgh we've always headed out to Buchanan's Tree Farm and we've been nothing but happy with our trips out there.  They are located in Beaver County and everything about our experience there is fun.  From the hay ride out to the trees, to searching through all the choices, dragging it out, then them helping us load up our tree is memorable every year.  Not only do we get our tree there every year,  but we all pick out an ornament in their warm little shop while we sip our hot cocoa and snack on our cookies before heading home.

In case you can't tell, we love Buchanan's!  If you live here in Pittsburgh, we highly recommend them for your live Christmas Tree.