Life of Yosts: A Continuing Tale of Craziness

Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!!

An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." - Matthew 1:20-21

May the joy of the birth of the Christ child be with you all year.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Kids these days...

So demanding...

So yes auntie, I took the picture from its frame, scanned it, tweaked it in Photoshop and am now ready to post the Santa picture. According to Cara, the elf got the picture (at Polo Park) momentarily before Frances melted down. Cara was disappointed. I am disappointed. The elf didn't understand why we would want a picture of our daughter howling. As Fiddler on the Roof would tell us "Tradition"!

This was also the first year when Teresa had an actual conversation with Santa. It went something like this:

Santa: Teresa, what would you like for Christmas?

Teresa: I would like to give you the cookie mommy and me baked just for you.

Anything else?

Nope.

Thank you, I'm sure the cookie is delicious.

Yes, it is.

I love that our kid's Christmas wish was for Santa to simply enjoy the cookie she made for him.....priceless.

Frances' 10 Month Photo Session

Normally I am not about for these photo sessions and I merely see the end results - super cute pictures of our super cute kids. Now that I have seen the magic that is these photo sessions I am now also amused by what goes on behind the scenes. This was, according to Cara, a complete disaster as Panny decided to explore the chair (including almost falling off). We all stood behind Cara in the vain hope she would look our way, and then during the 2 second focus / flash lag she would turn away. So here are the best of the 50 (I'm guessing, but I had to delete a lot of pictures of half heads, etc) pictures that Cara took.