Hello, friends! I am hoping to get our Christmas cards in the mail today, but since I am running behind, some of you may not get them before Christmas. Hey, at least they do say Happy New Year too! I know Christmas card sending seems to be a dying tradition, but I just think there is nothing more personal than a card in the mail, and I don't want to stop this tradition. I definitely don't get as many cards these days, but I treasure every one. I love receiving cards (and especially pictures) from our family and friends in the mail. I especially love getting cards from my special blog friends. I just want to wish every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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| I wanted our card to be a way to share some of our favorite pictures from the year. It has been such a special year with our little Mattox with us. In true "Sherry" DIY fashion, I made the cards myself and had them printed at Staples (way cheaper than Shutterfly). Unfortunately, they did crop my card just a little in the printed versions, but it is still mostly the same. |
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I wanted to do a little year in review summary on the back of our cards to share what our family has been up to. What a year!
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| These sweet boys did all the "work" of setting up this photo shoot. |
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| They tried out different poses. Eddie didn't like this one where he blocked too much of the tree. |
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| What a special Christmas I am having with these 3 beautiful boys! |
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| I just love them! |
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| These two just adore one another. |
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| Picture perfection! |
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| Our Family ~ We actually forgot to get Cocoa in our family picture this year. Boo! I am glad Mattie's stocking is in the picture representing her. |
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| And Mattox says this photo shoot is FINISHED! Haha! |
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| Christmas Fail #1 - Eddie and I both seemed to forget to get a family picture with this little cutie this year. I guess wrangling three kids and a dog for a family picture was just too much. Sigh. I did get this picture of Cocoa with her stocking. |
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| Instead of the plain green stocking I made for Cocoa last year, I decided to use this one that was Evan's first stocking. I painted over where I had written his name on the little star and wrote Cocoa's name. I think it is much cuter. |
Sweet! Very, very sweet! You totally need to give yourself a little slack on the timing of the cards and forgetting Cocoa. I will refer back to what I have said over and over this year. You had a baby and you moved. One of those would be difficult enough, but you did both. So that gives you two years before you can stop using them as an excuse.
ReplyDeleteI love the little summary on the back of the card. I might steal that for next year.
We still haven't sent our cards out. Ha! And I love your card, especially the summary on the back. I really like that idea -- it's so much less overwhelming than an entire letter/blog post like I did.
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