Christmas Card Shots....

I know these are cropped pretty tight but my wife wanted a few close up shots for our christmas card.
It was snowing and about 20 degrees outside (crazy I know) but she said she couldn't wait any longer and was determined to have a christmas card with snow on the trees for the family picture.
I did my best to try and make them look like they are not about to freeze to death.
Are the kids to washed out?

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nice photos but way heavy on the skin pp ease back on it and you will have some great family photos esp on 1 & 2.

Wonderful job! I like the contrast

Nice lighting you have, but I agree that the skin smoothing is a bit too much overdone. I love the smiles and the poses though.

YOur wifes eyes are amazing ! and it flows on into the rest of the family. nice job.

I do think the skin smoothing creates a different look-I like it !

Agree, too much skin smoothing on your wife's photo makes her look unnatural. Her eyes also look over done, too vibrant and too white.

Disagree -- Skin smoothing rocks! They look dreamy.

Skin to over-done in the 1st image...love the eyes in that one....rest of the series is good.

Like it's been said ... over done on the skin. (at least #1)

Also, the last one of the boy ... I'd clone out the dark spot on the upper left. It's distracting.

Thank you to all that replied any and all C&C helps me. I think I need to reshoot these, I screwed up on exposing them. I tried to pp out all the redness caused by the cold but had a tough time and went overboard. Also for some reason I am getting a lot of noise in some of my images even at low iso #'s, I think its probably me not properly exposing the shot. Any suggestions on how to reduce noise/grain?