Christmas Eve Day

Hi! It's me. remember me? I'm sorry it's been so long...

Well it's about time! :) Seeing that it is practically valentine's day (not really), I thought I would intentionally take a break from my work processing shoots and put together some of the pictures from our Christmas this year. It was a really nice one. So, I'll begin with Christmas Eve day. A sunny, crisp, California day. We woke up in our new home and got ready to head up to Grandma & Grandpa's house. The sun was streaming through our bedroom windows and Ava was looking at herself in the mirror checking out her new Christmas skirt. So that means to me, get your camera, there are beautiful things happening...

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We made it up to Pleasanton to be greeted by Caroline. Full of energy, she embraced Ava whole-heartedly. The two of them were off, (they hadn't seen each other in 11 months!). There was never a screech of "she's not sharing!". Not once. They were so fun to watch. Look at how cute they are (click on any image to enlarge): 

they spent the rest of the afternoon bowling. Caroline's got it down.

  Ava needs to work on her technique a bit...yikes!

 Inside we listened to Grandma's old 45's. Stored in the same cases my mom had. There was a time in my pre-teen years that this was all I listened to too. 

 Ava's thinking "what is this thing?"

We had a really nice dinner there and headed home to get ready for the big man in RED!!

Merry Christmas Eve.

Stay tuned for Christmas morning & day. It was fun.