Holiday preview (don't look if you want to be surprised)

I finally got the Christmas pictures taken this morning. A dear friend embroidered the girls' shirts (she ran into some problems with the original design and ended up doing a beautiful trio of sugarplum fairies). She made four matching bows to go along with the shirts, just because she's that kind of person. :) Thanks, Heather!! She also made Jack's entire outfit - it's super smooshy soft velour/velvet and has three toy soldiers across the front for our Nutcracker themed holiday ensemble.

So, what do you get after 140+ rapid-fire pictures in the bedroom? Not one single good one of the boy! I did take a separate one this morning that I was fairly happy with, but decided to just go with the group shot anyway. I'll upload all of the finalists, to see if you can find the subtle differences. Kind of like the "what's different" pictures in Highlights Magazine, for those of you in my generation. What I hope is that only *I* can see the issues with them and all of you see them as perfectly nice holiday pictures. :)

Hope you enjoy them. (If you're nearby, you will likely get a hard copy - but the rest of you will have to be satisfied with the digital images). And, now that I look at them in larger copies, I'm regretting my choice in which to print. But, oh well - none of them are perfect, so it'll do!