Our Annual Holiday Family Portrait!

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hi there! the time has come for our annual holiday family portrait. mr. larson is wearing his cute Forage bow tie! suki's reindeer costume has gone missing, so she got to be a little bear this year! it's almost been three years since we started dating, so this is our third holiday season together. just for nostalgia's sake, here are our photos from the past two years….

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(year one)

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(year two)

'Tis the season! What are your funny family traditions? XO. elsie

  • Elsie, is it true that once a man has a beard you instantly never want him to shave it off? I’ve been trying to get my husband to grow one for years (just so I can see what’s it all about) and he refuses because he doesn’t want to be the guy who has the same beard for fifty years. uggh. Guess I’ll have to love the luscious sideburns forever. πŸ™‚

  • awe! thanks so much!

    amber…. i love jeremy with a beard. he has only shaved it once since in the past ten years or so (haha), so you might be right. πŸ˜‰ i love guys that aren’t afraid to try new things too. change can be fun. πŸ™‚

  • I love your photos. You guys are very creative! You ask what are our holiday traditions. I have a 4 year old daughter and we make a gingerbread house each year. This year I thought it would be fun to get the Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer kit. I forgot she is afraid of the abominable snowman character in the cartoon. She put him to the back of the house facing the wall as if he is in timeout.

  • So cute! I love Suki’s bear costume.

    Our holiday tradition is to go to all the funny little local events, like going to see the lights display put up by the SA Brewery. I’m looking forward to going on a date there to buy hot donuts some night soon, since we now live walking distance from the display.

  • Oh my! So very cute!
    This is my mister & I’s first holiday together and we have celebrated Hanukkah with his family and eachother, then we also have been decorating for Christmas, taking holiday photos, making paper snowflakes & giving eachother stockings! It’s been a wonderful season.

    By the way, I am a new reader and I love your blog! Your shop is wonderful and you seem like such a lovely person. <3

  • oh goodness, Suki is such a cutie pie!
    I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” with my dad at least once every year. Since starting my own family, though, I’ve made a commitment to taking a Christmas-card photo of my boys every year. So far, so good!:)

  • ack! omg toooo cute! i love yr family portraits! love yr pug too my husband and i have 2 pugs one fawn and one black! they are like lil people love em…you guys look great xx

  • So cute! πŸ™‚ I can never get my puppy to sit still for long enough to take a family portrait – she’s always blurry! hehe πŸ™‚
    My Christmas tradition has become baking christmas tree shaped shortbread to give to family & friends! πŸ™‚
    x

  • i love it so much! you in red & jeremy in green (not to mention the bow tie!). suki is so adorable, too.

    our tradition is to make our own photo christmas card! after the second year of doing the, we’re hooked. πŸ™‚ this year is 60’s-themed!

  • Cheesy but OH SO CUTE! It’s so nice to have this portraits to look back to. They must be bringing back so much memories. It’s a lovely tradition and also shows how much you’ve grown and evolved yourselves and your relationship! ADORABLE!

  • So cute! And WOW, you guys’ style has changed so much! You looked cute back then too though. I like that you’re style has morphed together. Very sweet. πŸ™‚

  • Soo adorable!!

    Also, I love LOVE your hair in your year one photo. Very rocker-chic… I know you’ve mentioned extensions in the past, are you wearing them in that photo?

    xo, jenn

  • jenn… yes. mega extensions in our year one photo. i rarely wear them anymore, but maybe in 2011… who knows. πŸ˜‰

  • elsie, happy holidays for you and Jeremy! =)
    just out of my curiosity, what’s the name of font you used below your photograph? I’ve been looking for similar to it for months. thx before. =)

  • I have to say that like you were into Kina right from the start I was into the Barenaked Ladies right when they first started in 1992 in Canada My maromotes and friends and I loved them when i lived in the USA and I bought back a tape of theirs, when nobody here had heard of them

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