Wow, you guys are blessed.
Here's what I did to DS's pictures using photo impact. I resized and messed around with special effects.
Little baby pic is just resized, then we have as a painted canvas, calm colored followed by monotone (BW),
which I also cropped, so we could see baby's face more.
I did some cropping and cool light effects on your Christmas house.
Finally, I shrunk, but did not crop, Covemaster's pic. This all took me about 1/2 hour.
Took that long because I did more things that I didn't show, as I love playing with this program.