365 of 365 Miss Eva

Since Miss Eva was likely my most photographed subject this year, it is appropriate that she be number 365.
Love this little sweetheart.

364 of 365 Miss Eva

Came by for a brief visit, some hugs and a whole bunch of kisses.

Grandpa chased her around the living-room and hall.

363 of 365 Ignition

Just playing with fire tonight.

362 of 365 Thoughtful Friends

Our good friend Ken brought me these for Christmas. I love them and have so enjoyed them for the past week. Flowers are calm beauty amidst the craziness of life.

361 of 365 Christmas Spirit

David and I went for a walk this evening. A short walk. I was wishing I had grabbed my wide angle lens though but I sure wasn't going back for it. At minus 37 wind chills out there we made it a quick walk. We do appreciate this wonderful Christmas display set to music.

I wonder what his December electrical bill is like.

360 of 365 Hoar Frost

It was a cold crisp morning out there at minus 26C but the hoar frost on the trees was just beautiful!

359 of 365 Merry Christmas

His blessings to each and every one of you.

358 of 365 Wonders of Christmas

357 of 365 Family

Missing four of the gang but here we are.
Celebrated Christmas today.

356 of 365 Angel

Our son Paul made this angel in grade 3.
That was 19 years ago.
This angel is on our mantle every Christmas.

355 of 365 Wonderful Counselor

354 of 365 Good News of Great Joy

'And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you: he is Christ the Lord. This will be the sign to you: You will find the baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 

"Glory to God in the highest, 

and on earth peace to men on 

          whom his favour rests." Luke 2:8-14

353 of 365 Celebration

Most of the Bible Study/Community Group made it for an evening of feasting, singing Christmas carols, reading His Word and marvelling in our Saviour. It was a special evening.

352 of 365 Baking

√ Quiche for Christmas morning
√ Butter tarts for as long as they last.
√ Carmel chocolate saltines for as long as they last. (they didn't make the photo)

Tomorrow I make home made meatballs. I have to write that here so I will actually get the darn things done. They take forever but store bought ones are just not the same as mine.

351 of 365 Christmas Preparations

 √ The stockings have been hung by the chimney with care...
Tomorrow I make a quiche and butter tarts... if I can throw this cold that is coming on!

Our Christmas Eve this year will be this Friday night the 21st. Christmas day festivities will take place here on the 22nd. We are celebrating early because we have a fireman in the family and, well, he will be working and ready to protect you on the 25th. Very thankful he is willing to drive a day here and a day back on snowy roads in order to be with us for 2 days. Looking forward to some family down time with most of the gang. Still missing our west coast family.

350 of 365 We Survived

We all actually had a great time and no one missed their mama although Norah woke at 2:30 am and sat on my lap for half an hour looking around the room with a look on her face that said. "Where the heck am I!!"

349 of 365 Sisters

We are having the girls for an overnight.
Lots of laughter.
Lots of photos. :)

Not a lot of sleep.

348 of 365 For Me?

Oh the wonders of Christmas.....

347 of 365 Eggsactly!

I can think of a dozen reasons to be thankful for today!

Can you?

346 of 365 Beautiful

Miss Norah  was visiting today...

345 of 365 Mandarins

Orange you glad it's Christmas.....

These used to be a special Christmas treat when I was a kid. My  Mom would buy one maybe two boxes for our family of nine and then that was it. We would get so excited to find one in the toe of our Christmas stocking. Now they seem to be on the shopping list every week.

344 of 365 Egg Nog & Antipasto

....and now for something completely different that does not involve Christmas lights!

My light tent arrived last week and today I finally had time to put it together. It took all of 5 minutes. Love it!

And look what arrived from my sweetheart as I was just finishing the set up....

What a guy!
Perfect timeing!

343 of 365 Alice

This is Alice. She is a beautiful, gentle, and absolutely lovely 3 year old and I could have photographed her for hours.

I had two family shoots today and there are sooo many great shots.
But I do have to go to bed now......

342 of 365 Boston Pizza

Took the kids out for supper tonight. It has been a long week for Allison and she needed to get out of the house. The girls were pretty antsy though so Grandpa and I took turns eating (and playing and distracting and walking and well you know.... )

But oh we love seeing them. :)

341 of 365 Sam

is 16 months and he doesn't stop moving...... ever.
But what a lot of fun.... he had me in stitches.
And I got a couple of hugs. I had forgotten just how sweet hugs from little boys are....sigh.
I photographed Sam and his family last summer.

Checking out the set  up.

Rearranging the lights

 Having fun!

340 of 365 HOHOHO

Having fun with lights - Christmas is so sweet!

339 of 365 Wonder

338 of 365 Shovelling

Well aren't we all getting our exercise this week!

337 of 365 Sad Miss Eva

I babysat Eva this am while Mom and Dad took Norah to the walk in. She has something odd going on in her chest.
Eva didn't cry or complain but I could tell she sure missed her mama. She was one sad little girl all am. Here she is talking to Mom and Dad on the phone. She called Grandpa too.

336 of 365 Winter Wonderland

Only 30 more days of 365 (or 31, I suppose).
We babysat today and among many activities of the day we took the girls on a sleigh ride. They loved it although Norah fell asleep a few minutes into it.

This is my little elf....who doesn't pose for Grandma anymore.

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335 of 365 Eva

We took the girls to the mall today. You gotta love underground parking. Eva is so good about sitting in her car seat and making sure she is buckled in. Grabbed this photo of her as we were leaving. Believe it or not the lighting in the parkade was very cool.

334 of 365 Christmas is Coming

Are you ready?

333 of 365 Norah

sigh... she is so beautiful and she sits and poses for me. What more could this photographer grandma ask for?

332 of 365 Gymnastics

Eva is getting a lot braver at gymnastics Tuesday mornings and that makes for a whole lot more smiles as she discovers how easy and fun it all is. She now has the spunk to climb out of her crib which means life at her house has changed a little and her parents are a little more tired.

331 of 365 Thomas

Isn't he adorable? I forgot how darn cute little boys can be. Thomas is 7 months old.

330 of 365 Ingenious

As Canadians I would say we are pretty darn good at finding creative ways to make use of the white stuff.

Can you spot it?

329 of 365 In Search of Warmth

Why Canadians vacation south in winter.

328 of 365 Warmth

Needing a little warmth tonight. It is very cold out there.

327 of 365 Miss Eva

She is not posing for me here. This is just a brief, thoughtful moment distracted by grandpa.

She still lets me hug her and kiss her.

326 of 365 Miss Norah

She sits all by herself now....and you know what that means for her grandma the photographer. Also note that every time I ask her sister if I can take her photo I get a pretty definitive "NO"
So expect a lot of Miss Norah until Eva is past her camera shy phase.