It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...

Decorating for Christmas is one of the millions of things I love about the Christmas season. This year has been extra special because I get to decorate with my precious baby J! Here are a couple of ways he has helped decorate...

 Helping Pops put the star on the tree!

Putting the first ornament on Mimi & Pops' tree...a picture of his first visit to Santa.

 He quickly decided ornaments were much too fun to put on a tree and leave there!

 His very own tree! He LOVES the lights, but would much rather the ornaments be on the floor to play with.

Look, a star!

 And now for my favorite... We got J his very own Little People Nativity Set (Which I am very impressed with except for the lack of a shepherd.) and he loves it! We told him the story and put everyone in place. Then he decided to show the nativity members around his house.

The angel slides nicely down his race car ramp! Click and the above picture to make it larger and take a good look at that face. Too cute!

 No worries, she got to slide down about 20 times!

 Next, Mary and Baby Jesus take a ride in the dump truck.

Lastly, he loves putting the figures on the nativity advent calendar. He can even say "frankincense" and it is too precious!

We pray that J will come to know and love the true meaning of Christmas...God sending His son, Jesus, to redeem a lost world. And we pray you have a very joyous Christmas season!

Christmas cards...

Are one of those things that I hope modern technology never replaces. I love getting actual mail and hearing from good friends, so a Christmas card really is a present to me.

The past few years, I have used shutterfly endlessly. I use it to post and share pictures, to make photo books, to create photo products of our precious baby as gifts, and design my Christmas cards. They have numerous wonderful designs and their software is super easy to use. Here is our Christmas card from last year.

This year, J was very cooperative at our photo shoot and we have some awesome pictures to use. Below are a couple of my favorite designs.

Poinsettas - Very Vintage, yet Classic
Multi-picture - Perfect for me since I can never choose just one!

I also really like the new calendar backgrounds. The older versions were adequate, but these look so much nicer and more professional. I plan on making a few of these as gifts and they are 30% off through Decemeber 8th. Click here to see the new designs.

I am excited to get my pictures and start designing. I hope you are too. And send a Christmas card our way!