christmas card outtakes

hi caroline :)

i thought you'd like to see some of the pictures we had to work with for this years card.  we really never take a good family picture. they're actually quite comical.  your dad detests picture-taking in every way.  you are a toddler.  bertie is spastic when confined. and i'm just awkward when on the other side of the camera.  you put us together... oh goodnes!!

grandma and laura are always sweet to help us.  we were in martins mill to celebrate mama's 89th birthday...we carved out some time between first monday, an ou football game, and birthday celebrating to throw ourselves together and smile for the camera (sort of).

some of these are decent. some are very laughable.

enjoy.

even if we are an awkward-family-photograph family... i'm so thankful for you and dad and bertie! it makes me love even the worst of pictures (well, almost!)

i love you, caroline!

mom

2011 christmas card

caroline,

i thought our card was sweet this year.  i wish i was more prepared and spent more time on it earlier in the season... but it always seems like it's my last card to design... and i just kind of throw it together.  i wish i would have spent more time on the back... but i'm still pleased with it. i LOVE how the front is one huge picture of you. who cares about the back anyway!!?/ :)

here it is!

.... and for fun... here is last year's card. wow. :)

{this was our return address sticker...not sure why i didn't do one this year?}

sooooo... maybe i'll be wild and crazy and go green next year! ha.

i love you, ro

i'm glad you're on my christmas card ;)

mom

flashback: easter

i was searching through some files on the computer... looking for a picture... and came across a file of pictures from easter weekend.

take my breath away.

i can still hear and smell and feel these pictures.  they seem like yesterday. where has this year gone?

i don't think i ever blogged them. surprise, surprise!

so, here's a little warm, sunny, smells like fresh-cut grass, flowers in bloom post of the sweetest easter bonnet wearing almost one-year-old in the whole wide world

what a sweet weekend!

i love you sarah caroline :)
mom