Pinterest and Christmas pictures

I have always loved taking pictures but have never really been too good at it.  Really, I've always just been the point and shoot type of girl and took whatever quality pictures I got.  Thanks to Pinterest, I am in the very beginning stages of learning how to manipulate the settings on my camera.  The manual always seemed to confuse me but by finding and reading blogs about the settings things are beginning to make more sense.  I still have a VERY long way to go at become decent at photographing, but yesterday afternoon the three of us were all dressed up so I took advantage of the situation and got some Christmas photos.  They need some work but at least they aren't all washed out with a flash and you can actually see the Christmas lights on the tree. 

After we finished the family photos I played around and got several shots of Micah.  He had a blast playing around but it was so hard to get a decent shot of him.  With the settings I was trying to use he was little more than a blur a great deal of the time.  But I was able to get some cute shots.

I was even able to get some sleeping shots of Micah under the tree.  My favorite is the sepia toned one below.