Santa was here!!!

We had a very merry Christmas and hope ya'll did too!

Here is a picture of our tree after Santa visited! We couldn't believe the wonderful gifts he left for the kids...that guy ROCKS!!!

Some pictures - to tell the story of the last couple weeks!

Ice. Santa. Snow.

I'll get the pictures from our ice storm damage on here shortly - have to find the folder. Tulsa will never look the same.

Pageframes....and cards.

Well, today is upload day at the playground. This month the design team is being spoiled by Pageframes! wow! their stuff is so cool...it scares me! I'm not creative enough, lol. But, here are my first 2 creations....the rest won't be revealed until the 20th! The first one is their clear bell...I added some Basic Grey paper, ribbon, buttons, and a rubon....too cute! The second, I traced the snowflake with stickles! I just couldn't alter the actual snowflake, because I only get once chance!

Also, I have all 75 or so cards DONE! All I need to get are the cute little Christmas stamps from the post office and these puppies are GONE! yay! I must say, I was really scared about making them, but the came together nicely that it really didn't take as long as I was expecting. So, I'll probably do it again next year! lol

whew!

We spent HOURS preparing for our FAMILY Christmas photo! I told Darren I would not share until all cards are assumed to be received, but wow, what a day. We did all the "prep work" while Braden napped, so we were ready when he was...but by then Hailee was worn out (okay, it could be due to the 100+ fever she has along with a sore throat), but we got it. It took almost 2 hours to get the proper camera settings, family arrangement, and timer figured out...but when the time came, we only took about 15-20 shots before we had the declared "winner"!

So I've printed 54 pictures, matted them to paper (will trim them down tomorrow!), printed 54 greetings and matted them to paper (yes, Darren helped with all of this and I am forever grateful!), will cut those tomorrow too. So, I get to put it all together tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I'll actually be on time and have my cards mailed by the 5th!!!!

WAHOO!!!

Test shots

Darren needed to test the settings on his camera so that we're ready when it's time to do the family Christmas photo. Hailee was more than willing to be the "test dummy", Braden needed some bribery, but a couple shots turned out good enough for me to put down on paper!

and this one just cracks me up! This is what it's like trying to get Braden to cooperate when he's tired and hungry!!!!