The making of a Christmas card

It came down to the wire for us this year. Despite some seriously sweet photo moments at the pumpkin farm, Halloween, gardening and Thanksgiving, we just didn’t land on a cluster of shots (Zoe, Maggie, Zoe & Maggie) that would work for our annual Xmas photo card.

Thank goodness for tree hunting!

Here are ALL of the faves. I’ll take credit for the hats, but I swear I had NOTHING to do with the coordinating outfits and hand-holding. Started out pretty cute…but you can see the deterioration in process.

Ah, nearly-three-and-nearly-five-year-olds!

Not sure where this is heading...

Rescued by the candy canes. Phew.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

XO,

The St. Alonzos

Thanksgiving 2011–part two

On to the second half of Thanksgiving at the Coffield homestead (aka, “the farm”).

Again, here, we’re seeing some patterns developing: Thanksgiving family hang time seems to generally equate to a few gifts, snuggles with the Alonzos four (there’s something about that chair!), cards… and jam toast?

Oh, and of course the requisite run through Grandpa’s trees.

The girls love all the family time and I’m thankful for the photo-worthy moments!

Thanksgiving 2011–part one

As we do most every year, we gather first for dinner with my side of the family then head down to Vancouver to see Dave’s side of the family. It’s a great way to make the most of the long weekend and the lovely holiday and this year we weren’t disappointed.

First up: dinner at Nana and Pepere’s house on Thursday with Auntie Erin and Uncle Chris. As always, the girls had a great time with all of the one-on-one (and one and one and one…) attention. For Dave and I, it’s a bit of a chance to hang back and enjoy.

Somehow, the St. Pierre-side family hang time inevitably ends up in stories, snuggles and smothering Uncle Chris with blankets and kisses. Ah, family memories

And of course we hit the swings before hitting the road.

Cummingbird! heeh.