3 days

Santa will be here soon! I hope everyone has their presents wrapped& all their shopping done! I'm heading out now to brave the world that is the mall. I'm actually dreading it. Also, my poor little blog will probably be quite neglected the next few days while I relax with friends& family! I will return with lots of photos, including a photo shoot that I have tomorrow! Should be exciting& fun. The girl is gorgeous so it'll be very easy to make her look good.

For now, I'll leave you with this present. My mom is the best gift wrapper ever ..that is one thing that isn't genetic. I am awful but slowly getting better. I hope you all are enjoying your last few days leading up to Christmas! I will probably post a sneak peak tomorrow of the photo session& then be done until after Santa arrives ;) I have a few giant linkups coming your way that make for awesome posts! Both of them are completely finished& contain all kinds of fun photos that I've taken over the year. Some of them never even made it on the blog. Should be exciting. Now, I'm off to go to the mall. My saving grace for making this trip bearable will be purchasing myself a smoothie from Orange Julius. Bring on overpriced blended fruits :D

Santa& cats

Santa& cats were my subjects yesterday. Along with the kiddies who sat on Santa's lap. My girlfriend works at a daycare& she asked me to stop in to snap the photos of the kids. So I got some pretty cute shots of them (thank you, ghetto flash)& overall I actually really love how they turned out! I ended up with 94 photos. Some of the kids were just as cute as little buttons! Due to confidentiality, I can't post any photos of their faces lest I find myself in jail for Christmas. I do, however, have some really sweet shots of a few girls running up to& hugging Santa.

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She was just the cutest little thing. She couldn't wait any longer to say hello so she ran up to him early. So adorable! Santa wasn't toooo mad that she came up before it was really her turn. What a good, easygoing guy that Santa Clause is! Also, see how you can't tell I took that with my regular old pop-up flash? I have a really cool trick that I learned. I may have blogged about it but I can't remember. It's not a perfect solution but it was definitely wayyy better than having horrible photos with crappy flash lighting. That room was basically super dark with only a tiny bit of natural light from right behind Santa& then the Christmas tree. All things considered, I impressed myself!

Afterward, my mom& I hung out. First we dropped some lasagna off to my boyfriend& then we headed to her friends' house where I took 124 photos of her two cats. Yup ..I'm editing them now so check back tomorrow to see the end results. I'm so not a cat person but I have to admit these ones are pretty funny!