I have received delivery of the final print of our Christmas cards for 2013! I had to have them reprinted because the first time around they did it on a thick card stock like paper that was making us all look like our hands and faces were dirty. It was a weird finish. The company was good about doing the reprint, and now I am so relieved to see the photography doesn't look as grainy! We went the complete opposite direction when it comes to location for the 2013 card than we did at the beach in 2012. So I had to get used to them not being as bright and sunny!
I am calling for all addresses now! If you think I don't have yours, send it to me! I am ready and able to send out as many as I need to this year, so hit me with it! I am ready to address these babies!
I scrolled through my blog after I got the reprint to see what our cards had looked like in past years, and realized that not many of them ever made it on the record. I did post some of the photo sessions, but not the actual cards.
I went and dug through my boxes, and found every single Christmas card we have ever sent out! Counting this year, that is eleven Christmas card photos! Some of them are just a photo. Those were the years we inserted them in into a card. I like this tradition, and I am glad we started doing it ten years ago!
I got a kick out of some of these! I cannot believe that I sent some of them out! I guess I cannot believe I am posting them for all to see now, either! I look less than amazing in many of them! Maybe I just care more now than I did back then, but wow! It is good for a laugh anyway!
I will post our card for 2013 after I get them all addressed and sent out.
So here is a walk down memory lane...
2012: My favorite one so far! I just like it! Sandy beach, sunny day, what's not to love?! We were at Huntington Beach in California. Maybe everyone just looks better on a beach in California. I also love this photographer, Brittany Wood.
2011: A Fall vibe. Will and his fake smile are cute, and Walker had really long hair! I wish I could slide us all down a bit to give Georgia more room! Ha!
2010: We had this photo done in Lincoln Park, Chicago. I loved Georgia's outfit in the photo. (edit: my brother in law reminded me that he had to help us out by photoshopping Walker's head to the extreme! Walker was asleep in this photo, and Christopher put his head from a different picture on him, and fixed the shrubbery. Oh, and he got rid of my fly aways. Thanks Christopher! Oh, and note to professional photographers, people don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for pictures, and get them back with something as easy to fix as fly aways still in the pictures.)
2009: Tripod picture. Walker was less than a week old, and I look like I just had a baby. What is with my hair? The kids and Del just look confused! We learned this year that it is hard to look natural and cute, when there is no one behind the camera.
2008: Standing in front of the garage door of someone we don't know. We put the boys on step stools. I set the camera up, and had a neighbor push the button over and over for me. I actually like this card though. It came out pretty well for not putting much energy into it.
2007: My amazing friend Mandy took this photo for us. It was a fun idea, and I still love it! I want to kiss Georgia's sweet little blue eyed face!
2006: Taken on self timer in front of our fireplace at our old home. Wally was a three and a half year old terror, and I remember that right after we took this he snuck the camera away, (which was brand new) and threw it into a sink full of water. I was so frustrated when I found it! I was still sick as a dog because I was about four months pregnant with Georgia. Not the best photo, but quit festive! Ha!
2005: I actually think we may have sent out a photo with a little bit different positioning than we are in here. I think Wally was standing and Will was not burying his face in his jacket as much. But I didn't find that photo, and we may have sent some of this out too. Wally's little mouth looks so sweet here. I love how fair Will is! Such a blondie! I wish he was not looking away! Wally is holding a toy train. He was obsessed with trains at this age. And obsessed does not even begin to cover it! Our lives rotated around trains! I have dead eyes, but it could be worse.
2004: What was I thinking? This is the most unflattering photo of me, maybe ever! I was still getting this Christmas card thing down. Good thing we didn't send out very many early on! I was pregnant with Will, and sick. I think we took it at my Aunt Sandy and Uncle Scott's house on Thanksgiving. I believe Del and I had been to the city the night before for my birthday. We stayed at the historic Palmer House Hotel, and Sandy watched Wally for us. What a saint! Sorry, this is bringing all kinds of random memories out of the corners of my mind!
2003: Our very first Christmas card photo. Just our Wally boy that year. He was nine months old that Christmas. We took him to a studio. This is the cheesy quality you get, right? Wally is such a cute boy! He was in the middle of cranial facial helmet therapy at this time to help his misshaped little head. We even have one photo at this studio that we left it on him for. You can see his tilt from his Torticollis. He had one stubborn case! We had only lived in Illinois for about seven months that Christmas.
1 comment:
You are too funny! It is fun to see how every changes every year! It goes fast! Cannot wait to see this year's card! :)
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