After weeks of attempts and our outfits sitting on my bedroom floor we finally were able to get our Christmas card pictures taken!!!

My lovely sister Chelsea stayed the night with us, and took the majority of these shots. SHE DID SUCH A GREAT JOB!!

Mirah, dressed and ready to go!

Chelsea and Mirah, both so cute!

We piled into our tiny Honda and headed up the canyon.
The weather was just so perfect, we had to keep the windows rolled down!
Chelsea looking so glamourous!!

 My friend Alicia gave me the green chair!!! It kind of fits into the car…shifting was less than simple.

 Mirah loves the wind.

Especially when it means she can get a handful of Belle’s hair.
She is really into grabbing hair right now. It is a good thing mine is short right now.

 We drove up south fork, where the fall colors were mostly gone.

I had this idea about putting the chair on this bridge…
It was only marginally successful. 

Karl showing Belle where we wanted the shot.
The light was a little harsh.

Awkward….

Upside down baby! Mirah loves to be upside down. 🙂

Karl and Mirah.

Another shot.

We moved into this little grove of trees, and found some much softer light, with pretty colored leaves.

Me and my Mirah.

New pose, new setting on the camera.

Karl got this idea that it might be cool to have leaves in the foreground:


One of my favorites.

We then tried some shots of Mirah.





She was stuggling to stay sitting up. She has been doing really great at sitting up on her own for the past week, so wit thought we would try her out….
It ended with letting go of her on the above shot, and her FACE planting into the leaves. Like snow, that in my mind seems like it should always be soft, this thick bead of leaves had sticks and rocks under it. Mirah was REALLY sad and hurt.

When I saw the bump forming on her forehead and the little scrap on her cheek, I started crying too.

We attempted to sooth her. She loves to be thrown int he air.


It worked momentarily, so we tried to give her something.
Leaves, she loved to hold the leaves.


Chelsea waited on patiently, was we tired to settle her down.

But she just couldn’t get calm…my poor little sweet heart.





You can see the bump on her head, and the little scraps on her face here pretty clearly.

She seemed to be calming down after we gave her a pacifier…but no.

So, we finally pulled out the big guns. By guns I mean boobs, it was really funny nursing in a chair in the woods.

This really did help her settle down.




We walked around and looked for some more places to shoot.





We went near the water.


Chelsea walked around to get a pic across the water.


Another one of my favorites.

I love these. Mirah’s little eyes are so wide and clear here.

Thie moment was reacreated. She was doing this on her own, but we missed the shot. So, you can see my thumb in the bottom of the shot. I will crop it out later…

The light in this little grove was so great, we tired again, one last time here.

Last shot of the day, Chelsea…such an awesome pic!