Ready for Christmas!

It's time for Christmas photos again! Last year, my mom wanted to get everyone matching Christmas pajamas and do our pictures in those... so that's what we did!

We took some pictures in normal clothes too, which are the ones above. But the pictures of us in our jammies turned out super well! In fact, they turned out so well that I decided to go ahead and post these because I'm pretty sure the pj pictures are going to be the ones on the Christmas cards!

This year things went really well! We decided to order pizza for dinner so no one had to worry about cooking. And I said I AM NOT ORDERING UNTIL WE ARE DONE. I thought that might be some extra motivation to behave and smile and not complain. And it seemed to work! I think Connor said it best: "The faster we get this done, the sooner we can eat!"

There were only a few weird faces made when we were supposed to be smiling. But no bunny ears or anything like that!

So now we are all ready for Christmas! And be on the lookout for the pajama pictures!!

XOXO, Ness

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Christmas pictures this year. We didn't get very many, but here are the ones we did get!

So taking family Christmas pictures right before dinner is probably not the best idea. Espeically a fairly invovled steak and crab leg dinner. Whoops.

But to be fair, taking photos after dinner seems like an equally bad idea. Because either we eat in our clothes and risk spilling, or get ready after which would take FOREVER. So we worked with what we had.

It's also hard when alomst no one wants or is willing to take pictures.... Oh well. We got what we got.

I thought the backdrop looked really cool at least.

So wishing you all a virtual Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

XOXO, Ness

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

'Tis the season. We are finished decorating and now we just have to wrap all our presents and bake all our cookies and we're ready for Christmas over here!

These will always remind me of both sets of grandparents ❤️

Our army of Christmas bears!!

These are just from Walmart. My mom has been collecting them for a while now, but we haven't actually bought any for several years because we ran out of stairs.

But we decided to get this years because they were BROWN! It always looked so stupid with all white bears and one set of black bears, but they never sold any other colors! So when we saw the brown ones this year, we had to get them to diversify our bear collection! It still looks kinds sad only two that aren't white, but we are working on it! Haha!

So we have three strings of these lights and they are so pretty! One of them crapped out after those few rain days, so I'm crossing my fingers that these don't break too!

We simplified this year... AKA, we got lazy... But it still looks cute.

I froze my buns off trying to get pictures of the lights. It was supposed to rain the next night, so I knew I wanted to get out there to get the pictures, but it was so cold! 

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas from Vanessa Rutters on Vimeo.

XOXO, Ness

Virtual Christmas Card

Merry (almost) Christmas! Sending everyone a virtual Christmas card so no one is left out!

We decided to have a photo shoot before Sunday dinner one week... Yikes. Can I just say that being the photographer and being in the photos at the same time is really hard!

But we got a few good ones!

That's what you get when you stick your tongue out and it's the only clear picture....