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Merry Christmas - Sydney Children's Photographer

Well Christmas Eve has lots of traditions in our house. There's feeding the reindeers their oats and glitter food, hanging up the stockings, leaving milk and cookies out for santa, leaving the key on the front door as we don't have a chimney and Lexi has added sticking a picture of what she wants on the front door so santa doesn't forget as he walks in lol.



Then Christmas morning comes and the entire loungeroom is littered with presents and wrapping paper. It fills my heart with joy to see the kids faces as they run out on Christmas morning to see their stack of presents, yes I go a little overboard but it makes me happy lol!



So it's all over for another year. Only 11 months until the Christmas spirit starts again lol.

Have a happy New Year everyone :) Enjoy spending time with your families.
Julie
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Merry Christmas from the Vellas - Sydney Family Photography

Well it's Christmas Eve, my favourite day of the year :) The build up of excitement on Christmas Eve is amazing for the kids, hanging out the stockings, leaving the milk and cookies for santa, leaving his key outside the front door and trying to get the kids to bed with all that excitement, making reindeer food to sprinkle on the grass, I love it!

I'll add some photos tomorrow of their Christmas Eve preparation as well as opening their presents tomorrow but for now I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas from my family to yours :)

Hope you all have an exciting Christmas Eve!

Julie
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Christmas Cookies - Sydney Children's Photographer

Today's Christmas tradition is baking cookies! Sooooooo messy with a 2 and 5 year old but so much fun, we made little snowmen and the girls iced and decorated their own, they really enjoyed it :)

Now I've sent them out with daddy on a sugar high lol.

Beautiful Baby Olivia - Sydney Newborn Photographer

I shot the most beautiful newborn Olivia this week, oh she made me so clucky! So tiny and perfect and very sleepy for me which was great :)!

Enjoy your sneak peak guys.

Beautiful Engagement Session - Sydney Couple Photographer

This weekend I shot an engagement session for Kristy and Steve and what a beautiful day we had! Brilliant blue skies, a couple so much in love and their gorgeous baby girl. It was a great session.

Hope you enjoy your sneak peak guys :)

Chrissy Cards - Sydney Children's Photographer

Another huge part of my Christmas is sending out Chrissy cards! This year Lexi sent out a card to every child in her preschool room so that made her for sitting down and writing out 20 odd cards and the little darling did them all by herself, it took her ages!



And here is the Christmas Card our immediate family got this year. Photos of the girls at Brighton Boathouses in Melbourne.

Santa Photo - Sydney Children's Photographer

We took the girls to get their Santa photo taken today and I was actually very happy with the overall experience I have to admit! The girls were great, walked confidently over to Santa and Kenzie even sat on his knee and after a couple of attempts they managed to get some happy faces, santa included lol.

Bedtime Stories - Sydney Children's Photographer

I look forward every year to reading the girls Christmas stories at bedtime for the month of December. The night before Christmas is a huge favourite of mine but this year the girls have a new favourite, Olivia helps with Christmas. We went to the Myer window display when we were visiting family in Melbourne last month and Olivia was the theme for the display. The girls were so enchanted by the story that we had to buy the book and it's been read just a few times now lol.

Christmas Lights - Sydney Childrens Photographer

Nothing says Christmas to me more than a front yard littered with lights and decorations and of course I've had to do ours up this year! The girls love coming out to see the lights each night and switching them on is a highlight for Lexi.

You can imagine how much my hubby is loving me right now after I made him do all this lol.

Advent Calendars - Sydney Children's Photographer

Today's photos are of the girls opening their advent calendars. I can still remember the joy I had as a kid running to the fridge to open my calendar to see what chocolate I got and to see what was under each square. I see it on my kids faces too, it's so exciting although what isn't exciting is that they are now waking up around the 6.30 mark to get their chocolates asap!

Yay it's Christmas - Sydney Children's Photographer

Ahh my favourite time of year is here :) I absolutely love the month of December, I'm still such a kid at heart. I love decorating the tree, the house, baking cookies with my kids, the Christmas parties, wrapping presents etc. Pretty much everything lol.

Between now and Christmas I will be documenting the little things that make Christmas special and keeping them updated on my blog. I hope you enjoy :)

Have a safe and Merry Christmas to you all!

Julie
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