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The "Official" Christmas Card
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

As much as I love my new "Santa and the Zombies" Christmas card, I'm aware that some people may not appreciate the humor as much as I do - specifically, my husband and my grandparents. So, I decided, last minute of course, that I needed to pull together a more traditional Christmas card to send out.

The problem is, with my daughter suffering from a killer case of croup and my son in desperate need of a haircut, we aren't in the position to take a cute picture of the kids in front of the tree. And, after perusing all of the photos from the last year, we have very few with the kids together - and not one with both of them looking at the camera, smiling, etc.

Which is why I was thrilled to find the "Year in Review" postcard option in iPhoto! It let me pull together some of the highlights from this past year, including pictures of Steve and me with the kids. My biggest challenge was figuring out what to say on it! (I used an excerpt from this poem by Ruth Kephart).

Of course now that they are ordered, I have to figure out who to send them to.... and whether Miss Manners would allow for the use of mailing labels. I swear, a mom's work is never done!

Our family christmas card - side 1

Our family christmas card - side 2

by Kristin * Comments (5) * Link to this entry


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Your Christmas cards are very cute!

Posted by: Yolanda [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 12, 2007 12:52 PM

And...I hope Sophie feels better very soon!

Posted by: Yolanda [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 12, 2007 12:52 PM

extremely cute! your kids have your eyes, and Sophie is a carbon copy of you!

Posted by: adenacb [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 13, 2007 09:34 AM

Your card looks great! I used the same format this year - so awesome and easy. I had several people ask me how I did it. Gotta love the Mac and iPhoto! Megan

Posted by: rhiannonsmum [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 18, 2007 08:33 AM

Oh I love it! I used iPhoto to make my cards this year too and got nothing but compliments on it. I think the cute picture of my 4 year old on the card helped people overlook my carnal sin of using mailing labels AND having our names pre-printed on the inside. A mom's gotta do what you gotta do! :)

Posted by: JenM [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 18, 2007 09:03 AM

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