Christmas Eve

I will let the pictures tell the story of our Christmas Eve. Basically it was food, fun and family!! We celebrated with Josh's family and all went to church together that night. It was a good night.

Did I mention I am obsessed with my new camera and photoshop? I would marry them if I could. You think I am kidding? I'm not. So to all my facebook followers, these pictures are repeats BUT the facebook pics didn't have Coffeeshop Velvet Truffle action added to them or these cool frames, so HA!!!

Seeing Santa!!

Wanted to edit these (ya know since I am all obsessed with photoshop now, seriously OBS-ESS-ED) but my sister (ahem, Sarah) is demanding I post these. So here you go Sis.....our visit to see Santa!!

"Harper just hold still for the photo!!"

Nope, she has a mind of her own!

Looks like he is throwin up some mad gang signs, but no he is just telling me to stop taking pictures. He really hates it.....whatever.

Waitin in line for Santa.....so calm (for now, hee hee)

He is having a blast can you tell?

So happy Pax didn't FREAK OUT this year!! He actually sat on Santas lap forever (the ladies were havin some issues with the camera) and talked and talked and talked.

But look who DID freak out!! I am sorry, ya just gotta laugh at this!

"Get me the hell outta here Mom!!"

Tryin to squirm off his lap after she saw I was in fact NOT rescuing her from strange hairy old guy.

After we were done, I tried on a couple dresses at Von Maur and took her in the dressing room with me and she decided to escape.

This is her crawling under and out of the dressing room (don't worry, Nana was waiting outside)

Hahaha, love it!

First photo from photoshop!!

So I downloaded photoshop to my computer 2 days ago and ever since then I keep opening it up and staring at it with my mouth gaping open. If any of you have ever seen photoshop you will know what I mean....."what the hell does all of that shiznipp mean!!!" They seriously need to make a photoshop for dummies!! Layers, and channels, and paths oh my!!!! Luckily I remembered that a favorite blog of mine the Pioneer Woman (if you have never seen her blog go now, seriously NOW, you will thank me for it!!) had a section in her blog for photography and so I went to it. And THEN I discovered that she had these Actions for photoshop that you can download for free (as long as you have photoshop)!!! So I did it and it worked!! Angels sang, I cried a little....ok not really, but I was pretty giddy about this picture! The colors are so cool! It's called "seventies" and I am in love with it, and the Pioneer Woman.

The picture below was the before picture.

Merry Christmas to.....ME!!!

I got my Christmas present early, a new camera!! I have been wanting a nice camera for a while now. I love taking pictures of the kids and playing around with editing them. Josh was just going to buy me one and surprise me, but then he found out that I had really been researching cameras and told me to pick one out and he would get it. Ummmm..........OK!! So after much debate between a Canon and a Nikon, I chose the Nikon D3000. Walmart actually had the best deal on it! I got it yesterday and have had so much fun playing with it and taking pictures. Finally tonight it occured to me that I had not done one single thing around the house all weekend!!! Josh may regret getting me this, we may have nice pictures but the house is gonna go to crap :) Here are some of my first pics. I am still figuring out the settings, and editing stuff. If anyone has any tips or info about this camera, or editing software, let me know!!!