Holiday Pictures

My sister and her husband recently got a new digital camera - one of those fancy ones with the extra lenses and image processing. So we decided to enlist their help in taking some holiday pictures for us. We figured it would be easier to catch Calvin in a good mood at home rather than dragging him to one of those studios. The day started out well - Calvin was very happy and playful in the morning. This is one of the few pictures where we actually caught him smiling.


Once Mandy and Tam arrived we got Calvin dressed in his holiday best.


We took tons of pictures. The hardest part was trying to figure out how to get Calvin to sit up on his own so we wouldn't get any of our hands in the picture. We still managed to get some good ones, and a couple where he's actually smiling! Or smirking...but that still counts.










We even got to take a family picture - our first holiday photo as a family.


We also took a couple pictures of Calvin by our Christmas tree. We cheated and propped him up on the stuffed puppy dog that we had gotten from one of Phil's friends. Calvin was gripping the dog so tight he actually pulled off chunks of fur.


After taking pictures of Calvin we got to spend more time with our niece, Maddy. She keeps getting cuter and cuter!


What a sweet picture with mommy.