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Happy Christmas to me! I’m giving myself a new website dedicated to weddings! Hopefully, it will be up and running sometime in early January.

Please note: Bonnie Burman Photography is closed for the final week of December. Email and voicemail of an urgent nature will be returned ASAP. All other inquiries will be answered after January 2nd.

Today is the first day I feel almost ready to relax and enjoy Christmas. The gifts are all purchased, the decorations are up, and the cookies are baked. The dusting and sweeping may just wait until next year.

I thought I would share some of our recent activities. First the tree. Our tree doesn’t have a theme. All of the decorations are either home made or were given to us as gifts. The kids hang the ornaments themselves, in a way that would give Martha Stewart nightmares, but I am fine with it just as it is. Which either makes me really relaxed or just too darn lazy to fix it. Some branches have clusters of ornaments all clumped together, while other parts of the tree are nearly bare.

We lived in Alaska for 5 years and we still have family there so there are a lot of Alaskan themed ornaments.

The star at the top is made from aluminum foil. My husband made it our first Christmas together. It was all we could afford at the time. Now it is priceless.

She’s always in the middle of everything. . .

The Christmas Village on top of the piano. Anyone who knows me, knows I don’t like a lot of stuff sitting around except for maybe pictures! I think it stems from all of the dusting I had to do as a kid. No knick-knacks! But a few years ago my mom bought my daughter this little lighted up Christmas house.  So now I let the kids pick out a new building every year to add to the collection.  They love this village to much that last year they didn’t let me take it down until April.

Baking with kids is very, very messy. It requires a lot of patience. I really have to set aside an entire day to devote to this, which isn’t always easy. But in the end, the results are worth it. I remember how much fun it was to help make cookies when I was a kid and I really want my kids to have the same wonderful memories. But I gotta tell you, it’s a lot of pressure! This year I was really tempted to buy pre-made dough but I somehow managed to find the time/patience/courage to make everything from scratch. The gingerbread house is from a kit (it’s the only way to go!).

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I had been my intention to close Bonnie Burman Photography for the entire month of December. As it turned out, I didn’t finish packaging and shipping all of November’s orders until today. I also have one upcoming session that was postponed from November. But other than that, I am taking a break until after Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and I will try to find some images to post, but I really won’t be posting any sessions for a while.

So, I’m slightly behind the times with this social networking thing, but I finally got a Myspace and a Facebook. The Myspace is pretty much done, but the Facebook is still rather pathetic looking as I haven’t had a chance to do anything with it. Still, I’d love it if you’d come find me.

Myspace

Facebook Business

 Facebook Personal

I’m messing around with the look of the blog. Bear with me as things may look strange for a few days.

First the business: Everyone who has placed an order as of today (11/30) should have their orders by the end of the week. The exceptions are albums which take longer.

Now the personal: Although I don’t write much about myself or my family here on the blog, when I meet my clients in person we always end up talking about our kids with each other. I’m a child and family photographer so it makes sense! Many of you know I have a wide age range of children. My oldest is now officially no longer a child as he just turned 18. My sister was in town last weekend so I asked her to shoot his senior portraits. Check them out. In case you wondered, he’s 6′7″ but I think he has finally stopped growing.