The Holden Family: January 2014

Saturday, January 4, 2014

A Photographer In The Making

For Christmas, we got Ellie a camera. She always wants to take pictures with my camera and since that is more fragile we decided to get her one specifically for kids. We found a great deal on Black Friday and Nana and I waited in a very long line to get it. It was COMPLETELY worth it! It is one of Ellie's favorite gifts and she is a little photo machine. She poses her dolls and animals and us and takes pictures like crazy. She is pretty good too! She takes pictures and says, "This will be great for the blog!". So I have decided to add a little addition to our blog of Ellie's pictures. Every so often I will post pictures solely taken by her. Hope you enjoy her photos as much as she enjoys taking them!

Little Baby Joy is the focus of many pictures.

Her sister is also a popular subject to photograph.

Her First Mirror Selfie

Her First Selfie

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Christmas 2013

We had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas holiday! Our celebrating starts late Christmas Eve night as Ben works up until then, but with all that work and sacrifice of time comes a long restful break afterwards. We have enjoyed some great time as a family and Ben and I have been able to relax together before we enter his last semester of school, which is exciting beyond anything I can describe, but will also be a season of extreme busyness.

This Christmas the girls enjoyed celebrating Jesus' birthday. They also enjoyed looking forward to their visit from Santa and his reindeer. We enjoyed a service at church Christmas Eve night and then reading the Christmas story and opening our Christmas PJs. Christmas morning we enjoyed stockings, monkey bread, opening gifts and a wonderful Christmas meal.

This time of year was a wonderful time for us to pause and remember Christ as well as to be refreshed. We are looking forward to a year full of many new adventures!

Our Traditional Christmas Treats For Friends

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Eve Outfits (Ellie says hers look like PopPop's pajamas since he has a robe that is a red plaid fabric. She was so excited to get to wear PopPop's pajamas.)