Christmas Day

i know i am totally posting our Christmas photos and recap out of order, but i am ok with that :)

we spent christmas day with zack's family. it was warm and cozy and i was so snuggly by the fire. the breadys joined us for a delish traditional christmas dinner and our bellies got full. bean had fun playing with all her new goodies! play table, digi camera, violet the pup and more. thanks grandpa and grandma!! katelyn and grandpa did what they do best- wrestle, tickle, horse around! so silly!




and for my photog friends:
i shot all my Christmas photos with a Canon 35mm 1.4L lens that i am borrowing from www.borrowlenses.com while my 50mm 1.4 is in the shop getting repaired.
thanks DH for my new battery grip!
funny story real quick...in my stocking were 2 camera batteries (i thought i already rec'd my gifts from hubby the night before). i was like "thanks, i could always use more camera batteries." right? secretly i am looking around for the battery grip!! then zack says "well, maybe Santa left you something." and he pulled a box from under the tree and it was my battery grip!! thanks honey!

also...lately i've been post processing my family snapshots in Lightroom real quick. i then export them into Photoshop CS4 and apply Noiseware and batch process Edge Sharpening and save as jpegs and voila! done! what used to take me half a day now takes less than an hour. love it!

and one last note...i wasn't feeling the whole photo thing this year. maybe a little burnout from a busy holiday season with KLP. i was wanting to enjoy the moment and not worry about capturing the perfect photo...and i am ok with that. lovin' my snapshots :) and we did good and brought out the video camera too!!