Christmas Card 2012

It took a lot of time and effort and sweat and tears to make this year's Christmas card come to life. 

Even with kids this cute and happy, it is near impossible to get them BOTH to look at the camera at the same time WHILE smiling/not sneering. phew. 

Because we couldnt get one EXCELLENT family picture, we went with the collage effect on this year's card. Individually, we got some cute pics of each kid and a few fun pics together, so Eric put them all together and we had 125 cards printed for $20 at Sam's.  Cant beat that!

I think Grady's car picture was the most talked about pic this year.  I got the idea from Pinterest and love how it turned out :) 

And our sweet blind Bailey was so cooperative as long as I kept the cheese coming :) He's such a good dogger. 

When I was snapping pictures, I had no intentions of using most of these ideas for our cards, but when they were so cute, I couldnt resist :) 

They both had fun taking pictures with/in the box :)

I still cant decide if next year will be easier or more difficult.  This year was pretty tricky. 

A LOT of people liked this one, too:

but it was not easy to capture....

And after two attempts at family pics in our Christmas dress-up......we gave up. 

In the end, Im happy with the final product and already saying prayers for next year's edition :) Maybe we will splurge and get a professional to capture our magic in 2013!