'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!

Possible new blog/site

Tell me what you think... Jeff has been asking me to try and sell some of my homemade crafts for awhile now, but I have looked into etsy and don't really want to deal with that yet unless I knew I could make this work. I was thinking of starting on a smaller scale and starting another blog to showcase and take orders for some of my handywork.

Any thoughts, comments?

Also, any suggestions on pricing for items? Should I base them off of what I can find on etsy?

Thanksgiving Poem

Kara's class had a poetry contest in class yesterday... Kara won 1st place! Jeff & I were very impressed by this poem and had to share (and I didn't notice until the second time through it that the first letter of each line spells out 'Thanksgiving').

Turkey talk starts Thanksgiving day
Happy children run and play
Always fun on Thanksgiving day
Never greedy on that special day
Kicking off the football players begin to play
Shouting dads fill the house
Grumpy moms cook all day
In every turkey there is a wishbone
Very full children break the wishbone
In every wishbone is a wish
Never does this wish fail
Giving is always good on Thanksgiving day

Hope you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Family Pictures

Jeff's work gave us a family photo session and some free prints! We had fun taking these in and around downtown St George! Enjoy! :)

Look what's coming!

I can't believe our baby is old enough for this...

And yes, I made the dress!