Happy Holidays 2014

Tomorrow is Christmas Day and I wanted to upload a few pictures from our annual holiday photo card session. The theme for this year was "from the hood", and we all wore matching hoodies for the family photo. Wishing everyone warm and cozy holiday season filled with love and laughter!

ghetto fabulous

"That's how I roll."

straight up gangsta...

From the hood wit love!

Happy 10! Project: Plaid Christmas

Every year we send out holiday photo cards just like everyone else.  I have mixed feelings about this trend which has now become the norm.  I do love receiving photo cards and prefer them over the regular hallmark cards, but I can't help but to feel how impersonal Christmas cards have evolved as a result of this trend...which is a bit ironic.  The problem is that these cards are now being sent without any trace of human handwriting--not a simple line of hello or a well wish for the holidays...not even a signature many times.  Are we so busy that we can't be bothered, or perhaps this is the only natural progression in the age of technology and all the social media of today...as a result, we pick up a pen less and less and handwritten notes are becoming a thing of the past...sad, but true.

Well, so that's my pet peeve for today...now, onto this photoshoot!  We always have a blast with our annual holiday photo card session and we try our best to come up with some sort of a cohesive theme. This year, we decided to go all plaid (my favorite!), and I absolutely love how the pictures turned out. Here are a few of my favorite, some of which made it into the holiday card this year:

tired little pups...that's a wrap!

Happy 10! Project: Snowflakes & Lights

Can't believe Christmas is next week!  Things have been very hectic around here lately, and we also had a little scare with Jasper this week which just added to the stress--out of nowhere, he had a slight limp and just did not look his usual perky self.  The following couple of days were filled with anxiety and fear as we carefully monitored his every move.  Thankfully, it turned out to be nothing more than a minor muscle strain and he is pretty much back to normal, but this incident served as a sober reminder of my dogs' declining years and that I'll have to be prepared for things to come...

On a lighter and happier note, dogs and I had a lot of fun playing with Christmas lights in this photoshoot. Neither of them minded the light strings and kept them on even after the camera was put away!

he's starting to get grey eyebrows...sigh

snowflake hairpins!

I really love the simultaneous tilt here!

Happy 10! Project: Reindogs

December is the most festive time of the year and one photo session for the whole month just doesn't seem right, so I'm planning to do one a week.  So, the first one is the reindeer theme--done with couple of antler headbands I picked up for $1 each.  They're cheap, light, and the dogs looked absolutely adorable wearing it!