A Very Merry Christmas

Our Christmas started on Friday evening with some of Jonah's family at our house for a present exchange and a movie.  It was a fun evening and a good way to kick start the holiday.  Christmas morning we opened our stockings and then got ready for our church's Christmas morning service at 7:00.  Jonah and I lead the carols for the service.

 Eating waffles after the service

 It was fun to have friends together who haven't seen each other for a long time.

We went back to our house to open our gifts for each other.  This was our first year that we actually were in our own house on Christmas morning so it was nice to spend that time together.

 After our house we went out to my parents house.

After presents and lunch some of us went into town to watch "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."

  When we got back from the movie we ate dinner which Mom and Heather had made while were gone.  We finished the evening by playing one of Jonah's presents "Settlers of Catan,"  a board game that he has been wanting to get for some time.

Zoo Lights

We went with the Chandlers and the Nickells up to Fresno to check out the zoo lights.  First we stopped for dinner at Bravo Farms and had sandwiches and burgers.   They even had a firepit that we tried to stay warm by in between wandering around the outside area.

The zoo was fun although there weren't very many animal sightings so it was pretty much just for the lights.  That was fine with me though because I LOVE lights!

 With our admission tickets we got free hot chocolate and a cookie.  Neither were very good seperately but if you dipped the cookie in the hot chocolate they were much improved.

 Sting ray bay was open so we went inside and got a break from the rain that had started. 

 This tunnel of lights was one of my favorites.



Snugglers

                             Our cats have been snuggling a lot recently. 

They are the cutest when they sleep.

 Despite what these pictures portray Posie is VERY playful and crazy. Whatever room you go into she will follow you whether you are paying attetion to her or not.  Usually she will make you pay attetion to her by attacking your feet or whatever else she can get a hold of.  However, once she has worn herself out she loves to find someone warm to curl up on.



More Maternity

I took some pregnancy pictures for a friend of a friend at the end of November before all of the fall leaves where gone.  I loved how these turned out!!

The Twins

I had the honor of photographing my first set of twins!  They were quite wiggly for most of the shoot but their adorable little faces made up for it.  I hope you enjoy their cuteness...

Dustin & Chelsea

On November 6th our friends Dustin Koobatian and Chelsea Smallwood tied the knot!  We were pleased to be there to celebrate with them on their big day.  It rained on the reception which was outside but it still turned out beautiful.

A New Addition

 There were 4 little kittens found at Jonah's work and he couldn't resist rescuing one.  The 3 others were adopted as well so they all got homes.  She was only about 3 weeks and had to be bottle fed.

 I gave her a bath the second day we had her.  Despite what the picture looks like she actually didn't seem to mind it too much.

After her bath

Since Monty is my cat, this little one is Jonah's.  She's named Posie, after Buster Posie, the Giants' catcher.  The day we got her we took her with us to Heather and Isaac's house to watch one of the world series games.  Micah first suggested we name her Great Grandma Silvia, after my mom's mom.  Even though that was a good suggestion we went with his second choice which was Posie.

I found her curled up in my basket of yarn, what a cozy spot.

Monty has been pretty good with her.  He licks her, sometimes plays with her, and once I found them snuggling together.  Other times though he gets pretty annoyed with her and doesn't like it when she touches him.

I couldn't resist posting this cute picture of my cat, he's such a sweetie!!

Sunday Drive

Jonah and I drove up to Balch Park and were very pleased to find a lot of dogwood trees that still had fall colors on them.  The drive was beautiful!!

 Jonah tried fishing in the pond we stopped at.

The fog rolled in quickly, it seemed like every time we looked up more fog had come.