First off, there is a bunch to recap for 2013, but we'll be putting that off for a more relevant post. As you can tell, we haven't been posting for about 6 months now. I didn't even have to update the site's banner...the Christmas banner up top has been up since last year. That is what adding a 3rd kid to the mix does to you!
Ok, back to the topic at hand. Holly and I have been making our own Christmas cards since 2000. That is when we got our first digital camera and I started messing around with Adobe Photo Deluxe on an ancient SONY VAIO. The digital camera was Olympus and had a whopping 1.3 megapixels!!
We are missing cards for 2001 and 2003-2005. No idea what happened to those 4 years. We either didn't make any cards or I lost all evidence of them. However, we do have evidence of 10 years worth of family Christmas cards. Without further delay, I present to you our top 10!
#10 Christmas 2002
Number 10 was before Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery and every other fancy pants, ready at your fingertips, online photo print service. We used MS Word to create a card you print on regular 8x11 paper and then fold up. The cover was a pic of our new home decorated for it's first Christmas. The oak trees and bushes we so itsy-bitsy!
#9 Christmas 2008
This card is special to us because it has "ornaments" with sonogram pics of our twins. We tried 8 years for those guys! However, it ranks low in terms of the memories and amount of fun we had making the card. Sorry JAG.
#8 Christmas 2011
Number 8 also ranks low in the fun of actually making the card, but we love that it has all of us in it. We used pics of the day it snowed in Austin from the beginning of that year. 2011 was also the last year we had a card made that featured the bestest dog ever, T-Bone.
It was tough for us to rank the 10 cards we have from Christmas past. A lot of them hold incredibly fun memories of taking pics for the card. You'll see in the next post that one is especially cheesy looking, but was probably one of the most hilarious times Holly and I had making a card. Tomorrow we'll post the next 3 on our way to #1!
Ok, back to the topic at hand. Holly and I have been making our own Christmas cards since 2000. That is when we got our first digital camera and I started messing around with Adobe Photo Deluxe on an ancient SONY VAIO. The digital camera was Olympus and had a whopping 1.3 megapixels!!
We are missing cards for 2001 and 2003-2005. No idea what happened to those 4 years. We either didn't make any cards or I lost all evidence of them. However, we do have evidence of 10 years worth of family Christmas cards. Without further delay, I present to you our top 10!
#10 Christmas 2002
#9 Christmas 2008
#8 Christmas 2011
It was tough for us to rank the 10 cards we have from Christmas past. A lot of them hold incredibly fun memories of taking pics for the card. You'll see in the next post that one is especially cheesy looking, but was probably one of the most hilarious times Holly and I had making a card. Tomorrow we'll post the next 3 on our way to #1!
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