It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

I sent out our Christmas cards super late this year. As in I mailed the last of them yesterday. #slacker. But anyway, I had really good intentions this year to have professional family portraits taken but that just didn't play out because, well, I'm broke. And a mom. And pressed for time when all 3 family members are awake and happy enough to be dragged to the mall for family pictures. So a week or so before Christmas I taped up some great wrapping paper to the back of the sofa and threw down a white sheet to cover up the garish green carpet. Here's some of the outtakes: 

 

...and the winner!

I took it over to Shutterfly and dropped it into a Christmas card and 3-5 business days later these beauties arrived in my mailbox: 

 

Then on Christmas morning we woke up to a very sick baby. She had a massive coughing fit just before this picture but she was so excited to finally rip the paper.

Gotta love matching father-daughter bed head. 

 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I know we did, even if it was a little chaotic hitting up three different houses in one day. I bought Chris an adult-sized Captain America shield and some DVDs. He bought me a new laptop, so hopefully that means I can start chatting you guys up a little more frequently from the comfort of my own sofa.

 

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

This Christmas is very, very exciting for me. I'm totally and 1000% into the spirit this year. Last year I was nine months pregnant, miserable, huge, and settling into a brand spanking new (to us) house. Not exactly in the holdiay spirit. So when my mom called me and asked if I wanted to go cut down a Christmas tree yesterday, I jumped. I had been itching for a tree for a few weeks already but had to resist because it would have died long before the 25th.

We went up to the Christmas Tree Farm and had a hell of a time trying to find a tree. I guess when it hasn't hardly rained all year and you have an obscenely long hot summer it doesn't do so well for the Christmas tree business. But the man there was super nice, and he was apparently open only for us, which made me sad. We've been going to this tree farm since I was nine or ten so I obviously hold it near and dear to me. Cutting down the tree was a major part of my childhood Christmases.

Anyway, now that I'm getting sappy (ba dum bum) about trees, I'll move on. We got the tree picked, cut, and netted and then hustled home to decorate it.

Bam! It's very tall, we actually had to give it a haircut just to put the topper on it. So since that was done, I started chomping at the bit to do our Christmas cards.

I bought some adorable wrapping paper at target this year and I thought it would make a great backdrop for a photoshoot/desperate attempt to get a card worthy picture.

 

 

I love the bottom, even though her arms are a little bit blurry. She's such a ham.

I have the card narrowed down to two designs on Shutterfly, now I just need Chris' imput. I'll be sure and post one when we decide!