Christmas Cards Ready!!!

Okay. As many of you may know, I am NOT the creative one in our family (myself and my two sisters and brother). I was talking to my little sister, Crystal, earlier this afternoon about how we were going to write a Christmas letter send along with our greeting cards but that I needed to go to Wal-Mart (always such a joy) and get some decorative paper to print them off on.

So Crystal ever-so-innocently mentions that I should just look on the Internet for something that we could cut and paste in the corner of a plain sheet of paper and then just write the letter and have Meggan help color them in. Again, not being the creative one of the bunch, this was quite the undertaking for me instead of just going and BUYING something I could just shove into the printer and be done with it. Nonetheless, this afternoon and evening we were busy typing, printing, coloring, stuffing, and labeling.

Here are a few pictures of the process (yes, she was wearing a tanktop this afternoon and then a sleeveless nightgown tonight - there's no stopping her!):

Jordan even got to help tonight when we were finishing labels and such (well, at least if you want to call it that). Really all he did was walk through the envelopes a couple times ... then they both got bored and started dancing instead. Most of the time this afternoon while we were doing the coloring, he was in his bed taking a 5 1/2-hour nap!!! Poor thing - and now he's in bed again and has only been up since 4:00. Guess he's having a sleepy day... Just to prove that he IS okay and is right back up and at it after snoozing the entire day away (he has this new "dance" where he walks sideways with a bit of a bend to it!):

Finally, an example of a finished product (sorry to those of you who will be getting a card and this is ruining the surprise). Actually, the photo didn't turn out very well of the greeting card itself, so you're not seeing the picture early anyway!

Just as a side note: Meggan did not personalize each and every one that she colored - she decided her hand was hurting after a while! So don't feel bad if you get a letter and it doesn't have her name on it ... there were only so many of these made. All in all, it was really fun to do and gave me and Meggan something to do together. She loves to be a big helper and feel like she's helping me, so it was time well spent (I feel like I accomplished something all on my own and didn't take the "easy" way out). Thanks, Crystal!!!

Now I just have to finish writing the addresses on the last few, and they can go out in the mail tomorrow! At least I have ONE thing I can cross off of the list of things to do! For now it's off to bed so I can get up and drive 110 miles (yes, that's one way) to my job in the morning...