Christmas of 2003 was a special time for me as it was the first christmas I was spending with Lauren... and her family. Surprisingly, they made attempts to accept me outright from the beginning and while I was certainly intimidated by the experience (at the time), it turned out to not be so bad.

At this point, I am sorry only that it has taken so long to get these pictures up as this was probably one of the most fun times of my life.

Oh, also want to aplogize outright for some of these photos as the scanner that I have is hyper sensitve and I didnt spend much time doing any sort of color adjustment so on some of these photos, the contrast is a bit high due to the scan process.