Wednesday, December 16, 2009

I love Christmas. I love Christmas. I love Chritsmas...

I have to keep reminding myself that I DO LOVE Christmas. I was so excited when Thanksgiving was over. We immediately got our Christmas tree (it has to be real-love the smell) and decorated our house. Oh I loved it. And now 9 DAYS away from Christmas I am not sure why. For some reason I decided to make 15 presents by hand this year. What was I thinking....well I was not thinking at all. There are 3 different projects, pajama pants (even though I am not an experienced sewer), Snowman crayons ( I had to peel 168 covers off), and my favorite and by far the most attractive 2 family trees (super cool, I will have to take a picture and post it) and when I decided to make them I did not think "O maybe not a good idea since you are making so much already". NOPE. So here I am again 9 days away from Christmas and I have done nothing for the pajama pants except buy the flannel, and have not attempted to melt any crayons, the family trees I am actually almost done with but they were the easiest. And then the CHRISTMAS CARDS. Every year I HATE them and every year I do them. In a effort to look cute I got us all coordinating outfits. We got all done up and for 1 1/2 hours we took pictures (Brian has turned into the Nazi photographer...but that is for another time). None of which actually turned out well. The picture we are sending has to be in black and white because the color looks funny. So you cannot tell we have coordinating outfits on. And Brian and I are the only ones who look decent. And out of the 4 of us Ben and Austin are by far the cutest part of the family. So below are some of the pictures that will not be on the Christmas card because they would not fit. See the are pretty CUTE! But you won't be able to tell that from our card...o-well. So it is here and now that I have decided to stop stressing. So what if the cards are going out late? So what if I accidentally put the return address label where the stamp goes on all of the envelopes? So what if the family letter does not have anything to say about me because all I did this year was try to survive? Well I did and I am HAPPY it is Christmas time. REALLY.

5 comments:

Natalie said...

Very cute, Corinne! I can't believe how much your boys have grown. They look very much alike but also different. (Mostly the hair color, I think)

I gave up on Christmas cards and have decided to do New Year's cards.... :) December is too busy!

Corinne said...

Well I did finish them and yours is in the mail....I look forward to January

Becky said...

The pics look great! You are much more relentless in your efforts than I ever will be. Way to go!

Melissa said...

Hey girl! My cards are late too! don't stress - I think everyone is in the same boat this year! I would love to see what you are doing for the family trees - I wanted to do something similiar but couldn't find anything cute!! Hope all is well - the boys are getting soooo big!! Don't forget to post your crafty pictures when you are done!

Ben and Camille said...

LOVE THOSE PICS!! they are both getting so big. keep telling them that they get to see us in ONE MONTH!! we can't wait to get back! see you around the first of feb!!