Cute Holiday Cards

Remember when I was talking about getting my Christmas cards done early this year. I was checking out different sites and the cards they offer. I checked out Sam's Club (who I have purchased from in years past), Walgreens, even tried to make my own cheaper version on Picnik but the one I really want is from Shutterfly.

My sister-in-law took our pictures about a month ago and I liked quite a few of them and just couldn't decide which picture to use. In the past I've bought the inexpensive ones with 1 photograph but this year I wanted to do more of a collage effect with many photos.

These are some of my favorites. I'm trying to decide between the "many memories tree' card and the 'peppermint pink' card. If you usually include a family letter with your cards then check out the 'christmas letter' card--it combines a cute photo card with a family letter.

I loved the ease of the Shutterfly system, especially when dealing with a card with multiple photos. You can easily drag and drop pictures, move them around and crop right on one page--something that left me very frustrated at the other sites I visited.

One day as I was doing my usual blog browsing I came across a project done by dreambookdesign.com and as I was skimming her blog I found this great deal. It was just what I needed to find. If you have a blog and want to take advantage of this great promotion to get your own free Christmas cards from Shutterfly check it out!

Family Pictures

We had family pictures taken just a couple of weeks ago. I'm having fun playing with some Christmas card layouts at "Shutterfly", and hope to get my cards out early this year.

chicks

A few weeks ago, I walked into our local Cal Ranch store for a can of spray paint, but ended up walking out with 3 of these ... I had "my" four chicks with me and so was talked into buying them. Actually, I thought they were pretty darn cute too! Here's one of my cute chicks holding a cute chick. They were cute for about 2.3 days until we realized how stinky and messy they were. Our intention from the beginning was to keep them for a month or so and then take them to our cousins farm where they could roam freely. The kids played with them nonstop for the first couple of days, so soft and adorable. We enjoyed our time with them, however, after about 2 weeks we decided they needed to go to the farm--they were getting big fast! Goodbye, Maddie, Pecky, and Tweety, have fun on the farm!

Well, it has been about a month since we've seen them. We will be visiting them Sunday when we have a family get-together for Easter. I'm sure we'll be surprised how much they've grown.

I hope you all have a very happy and chick-filled Easter!