Christmas Card Time

It is the time of year to figure out my Christmas card....maybe even a bit late to still not have a plan about them, but better late than never I say.  Every year I think I will work on my cards over thanksgiving and get them out by the first of December that has yet to happen.  This year part of my hold up has been I am stumped for a card design.  Usually by now the idea has finally presented itself.   As those of you who receive a Christmas card from me know I usually send some cute and crafty homemade card, but this year I keep being drawn to the Christmas cards on the Shutterfly site and I am thinking that is what I am supposed to send this year.  Recently came across several friends who blogged about Shutterfly and got free cards so I figured why not these are the cards I like and if I can get them for free win-win.  I have received several cards from friends who used Shutterfly this year and was pleased with how they looked and I have used Shutterfly for other projects quite a bit lately like scrap booking- I like to do their 8x8 photo books and upload my digital scrapbook pages.  So I have things narrowed down pretty much now I just need to get the photos for the cards together which means getting my girls in their Christmas dresses for a photo shoot in front of our Christmas tree.  I do have a family photo picked out we may also use.

below is 2 designs I really liked and click below to get the info at Shutterfly about them.

Christmas Card 

Flat Christmas Card

I am also thinking about the idea of getting some Address Labels from Shutterfly to use because they are pretty cute and will save a good little bit of time!

If you have not narrowed down what you want to do for your cards you should definitely check out Shutterfly and don't worry I did not give away the surprise none of these are the design I am going to use....

SNOW

We had a big snow/ice storm (for Nashville) this past winter. If I remember correctly Madalyn missed 4 days of school because of it- she was not complaining! One of the days we were home bound we walked up the street to our good friends the Douglas' house and did some sledding with the girls 2 best friends Gavin and Brady.

Girls vacation 2010- a bit early

Several years ago we started a tradition of going to Birmingham and spending time with Aunt Susan- this became known as the girls vacation. Most years it happens to work out that we go on MLK weekend, but this year we ended up going right after Christmas while Madalyn was still out of school. We always do fun things like scrapbook, craft, watch movies in Aunt Susan's big bed and eat yummy calzone just to name a few. One of the things I like best is having a mini photo shoot with my girls. It seems like a lot of the time at home I am the one holding the camera and taking the pictures.

Christmas gifts for sisters

I will preface this blog post with the fact that I obviously have been ignoring my blog and it has been a long time since I have posted anything about my two beautiful girls. They are getting so big and I am sad that time is going by so fast so I am going to try to make a conscious effort to post more often if not for others but even just for me so I can remember all the stories that go with the photos years from now.

This picture was taken Christmas morning and has a bit of a funny story to go along with it. We decided just a few days before Christmas to give each of the girls $20 to spend on a gift for each other. Garrison and Madalyn walked all over the toy section at target and Madalyn chose this fairy barbie to get for Mackenzie mean while Kenzie and I were also checking out all the toys in target and Kenzie decided the exact same fairy was the perfect gift for Madalyn. They both could not believe it when they opened the gifts and they had chosen the same thing for each other.