My challenge of a perfect personalized Christmas card

Every year I say, this year I am going to do it!  I am going to make personalized Christmas cards to send  out to all my family and friends.  And each year I take 200 pictures of the kids together trying to get just ONE perfect shot.  And I fail.  At least, in my opinion I do...because one will be looking and smiling while the other is making an absurd face.  Or they cry.  Or sit on each other, or some other sibling type thing to do to each other.  So every year, my plans are foiled.  But this year, I truly plan to do it!  Even if a picture goes out that may embarrass the kids in a few years ;)  So, I plan to use Shutterfly.  I have used them to print pictures before, with great results!    They have 748 different designs just for Christmas!  Then you can choose other things to make it a smaller pool to choose from, such as flat or folded, how many picture, color, etc.  This might be our card this year :)  They have other events and holidays to make cards for also, such as Thanksgiving or perhaps Birth Announcements.  Looking at the birth announcements almost makes me sad that I will never need those again.....I said ALMOST people!  ;)  And don't forget the things that you could make as gifts!  Grandma and Grandpa would love a calendar for Christmas to look at their children and grandchildren all year long!  One year I ordered photo mugs for grandparents, aunt and uncles, etc- HUGE HIT!  So watch your mail box in the next month or two....you might just actually get a card that isn't stamped Hallmark on the back this year!

Updates

Riley just finished up Kindergarten!  His teacher had nothing but good things to say about him.  He LOVES school (even the homework!) and did really well.  I hope his love of school continues!  He tested out average in a few things but everything else was above average :)  There was a girl he said he played with at recess all the time, her name was Emilie....I teased him that she was his girlfriend and he would turn bright red, haha! He also loves to play football with Jon (who is 17) after church every Sunday, and of course he still loves video games.

Lily LOVED preschool!  She was so cute for her preschool presentation where they sang some songs.  She is so much more outgoing than Riley!  She will sit with just about anyone at church, but has a fascination with Andrew (who is 26 lol).  She says that Andrew is her boyfriend!  Although when she found out Andrew and Anna are going to have a boy she said that the baby will be her boyfriend, lol!  She is very....expressive, lol....she does the eye rolls with her hands on her hips and is bossy but at the same time she will bat her eyes and wink at you too ;)

And me?  Well, I am still here and making it.  I have my bad days and my good days.  And some awesome weekends with my friends in far away places ;)  Still trying to figure out where my life is going and what I am going to do.

Picture post!!!

Summer 2009

Riley's First Day of Kindergarten

Lily's First day of Preschool

Halloween 2009

Christmas 2009

Christmas Program at church 2009

Need prayers

I have no idea what's going on, but I have had a headache for at least a week and a half, probably close to two weeks now though. At first, it just seemed like a headache. Every couple months I will get a headache daily, but it will go away with ibuprofen. For the first couple of days it did. I also had a slight sore throat, but nothing major (and still do). Then the headache wasn't going away at all. It feels....IDK how to describe it...like pressure, or like my head is swollen. And hot. I haven't run a fever at all this entire time, but the inside of my head feels hot. So pray it's nothing major. I don't think it's a migraine because I haven't had any nausea or light sensitivity.