Christmas Insanity: gratuitous pictures

So...Christmas was appropriately insane for us. Tons of gifts and laughter and family and all of the wonderful things that make the holiday so much fun. Here is a pic of the boys before they started tearing into their presents. I'm shocked that Griffin sat still long enough for me to take this shot, he was supremely stoked!


Then, I did something a little crazy. I put together every check, cash, and gift card that I received and even batted my eyelashes to convince Roger to give me some more money and I bought myself a Nikon D5000. She's a beauty. I hit up the after Christmas sale at Target, walked out with my shiny new camera, and then skipped around like a little girl with a new toy the rest of the weekend. I was poking my new camera into everyone's face or into every little nook that I could find.

I took pictures of all the cousins playing together.

I took pictures of itty bitty things
that I stumbled upon
in natural light.

I snapped photos of Christmasy things...
like my Mom's collection of Santa's made out of toilet paper rolls.

I went outside and took pictures of my Dad's garden.

I made Griffin hang out on a bunch of rocks and tried to be artsy fartsy.

I'm just SO excited about my new camera
that I could literally pop.

I hope that Santa gave
you what you wanted too.