Christmas Evening

In the evening it was time to pack up our presents and head over to

my parents house to celebrate with my side of the family. My mom had

created yet another fantastic tablescape. It was vintage with icey details.

A perfect wonderland.

There was a concert for Granna where the burtons played christmas songs

they had prepared on the piano. Karin and Ricky always do a duet. Followed by

the giving of home made gifts, made with love for Granna. I remember as

a little girl giving home made creations to my Granna. I loved to give origami

delights. Granna and Papa would always display such gifts on a small set of

selves behind the lazy boy in their upstairs family room.

This year I gave Granna a purple orchid, her favorite color is purple.

all the presents were so glittery and magical, I almost didn't want to

open them.... almost. Reece and I had wrapped our presents in

blue, dark green, turquoise, purple, and a few in peacock feather

motif papers. All to match the our tree at home. It was good we were

giving to the burton family, a family of all boys, who enjoyed all the blue.

Will helped everyone open presents, he also had an enthusiastic reaction for every one.

Andrew surprised his parents with this ceramic crech that he had painstakingly

hand painted every piece.

This is the first picture I took with the 100mm macro lens that

Reece had given me for christmas. I had been doing some product

shooting and had been really wanting a macro capability.

for those who I was giving gift cards, I made the delivery more

special by making snow globes out of mason jars with, where the

gift cards could be seen through the swirling clouds of glitter.

Always a ver merry time full of love with my family.