Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Kara's first basketball game

Kara is playing basketball this year (and Brooke is too, but she doesn't start until January).

Kara's team had their first game today... Here are some photos!

Kara is excellent at defense and even though she is a full head shorter and a year younger than some of these players (her group is 5th & 6th graders), she wasn't afraid to go after the ball. She even dove for it and sacrificed her knees then held onto the ball and got dragged and elbowed down the court. But she never let go and made her coach (and her parents) proud!

Merry Christmas!

While at the mall wandering around and waiting for the choir performance to start (see previous post), the girls made a mandatory stop at Claire's. We saw these little santa hat clips and I knew we had everything we'd need to make them. So last night I did, and today both kids are enjoying their new clips! :)

Keeping us busy

Our kids' activities have filled the December calendar... just one of the many activities this year: school choir. These are a couple of shots taken at the mall performance last night.

'tis the season

Because Brooke's school can apparantly still get away with singing holiday songs, they had a 3rd grade program in which Brooke played an elf (one of many) who did not like the new elf (and they thought she was an 'elf impersonator' named Elfis). Cute!

Christmastime in St George

One of our favorite Christmas traditions... going to watch Mr. Kreuger's Christmas at the temple visitor center and seeing the nativity and Christmas lights.

A couple of pictures:

Shutterfly's 50 Free Christmas Cards Promotion

This is a shout-out for Shutterfly's awesome 2010 holiday collection!

Shutterfly was holding a promotion for bloggers to take advantage of getting 50 free Christmas Cards... and I barely made the deadline!

Shutterfly has sooo many awesome designs to choose from, I'm not sure which one we're going to go with yet.

One of my frontrunners for cards is this design which gives us room to share 5 photos (which would be nice because I can never pick just one). The full list of Christmas cards is here.

Some of my favorite baby announcements from friends have been done through Shutterfly. All of their cute baby announcement designs can be found here.

My third favorite (and this was not in any particular order) item Shutterfly offers are these awesome calendars, which my sister-in-law is always kind enough to organize for a gift for Grandma!

In the future, I'm thinking of ordering a picture for our home in one of these home decor areas. I love the frameless designs and I think I'm going to start planning which pictures to use and where to put one! :) But I can't decide if we'll use a gallery style print on canvas, the mounted wall art, or maybe even some fun wall decals for the girls' rooms! Shutterfly gives too many good options to even pick!