casa de verde: Christmas

So for this year's Christmas card (donned with images from our Downtown Fullerton family session) I originally planned on ordering the lot from Shutterfly, found the perfect card and was about to order the one below...

Isn't it cute? This is a low resolution screen capture. NOT printable.

Well the price was not at all desirable Way too much. Then I found Cardstore.com and they were having 75% off card AND they would label and mail them FOR FREE!

Easy choice, right? Well when I looked at the cardstore.com options, I didn't see any designs I liked.

So my solution was to make a copy cat design in photoshop. What do you think?

Its not 100% the same, but I really like it.

There is always a solution.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

This year, my friend Denise and I were charged with planning the "young married" ward christmas party.

It was so much fun! Both planning, and partying. :D

I bought some ugly sweater images, added hangers and and made invites, food labels, ballots and questionnaires.

I removed the personal information.

When we arrived, we had some DELICIOUS buffet style dinner prepared by Denise.

And everyone brought a tasty treat. We voted on those at the end of the night.

Blake's

Mine

Erica's second place treat!

and the winner! (thans Marc and Louisa)

We then had every one fill out this little baby. I chose one answer from everyone's paper and read it out loud. Everyone had to guess whose it was. Very funny and super fun.

These three left before we did pictures at the end of the night!

Theres Denise getting our second game all set up.

So the next game we played was "Christmas Kisses" Where one person was "Santa" and had one hand in the stocking and tried to unwrap and toss a chocolate kiss to the second person, who was the "reindeer" and had to catch the candy in their mouth.

We had so many people there we had to do two rounds.