This month for the photo blog challenge the theme is "holidays" which is great because I took quite a few holiday pictures for people this year as part of my Quicky Christmas Card Portrait events, as well as a few personal photos.

The past couple of years we haven't put up a tree because we have traveled over the holidays, but this year we spent at home so we got the tree out.  I don't put up a lot of ornaments, just a whole bunch of fun Christmas lights like this light up snowman.

When nothing will make kids smile, try letting them sit wrapped up in giant Christmas ribbons.  It certainly worked here.

This was a fun little brother big brother picture where they both had big ideas about what might be in the boxes.

I can't remember what I said to these kids to get this expression, but I certainly had some fun captioning it.

The holidays mean an increase in being home and cooking.  I captured this image of my mother-in-law cooking with a new lens I got for Christmas.

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