Tuesday, November 30, 2010

To send or not to send...

Every year I've wanted to get the perfect Christmas card picture and send out the perfect Christmas card. Finally, this year I decided that I will be sending out the photo Christmas card, not the Christmas card with photos in it. I have my nice, new camera to take the perfect pictures too!

Shutterfly has a great selection of templates to choose from and all you have to do is add your perfect picture! I am still deciding which one to choose, but I have a few favorites.

I've also been browsing their site for other Christmas gift ideas.
Check these out:
photo playing cards
Turn your pictures into a canvas
Precious ornament
I've always wanted to create a photo book - these are so easy, yet elegant!

Have you ever ordered from Shutterfly? They always have promotions going on to get a good discount. Go check it out!

Alright, I've got to go pick my cards or I'll miss this Christmas too!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Christmas Card Outtakes









Alas, there will be some good ones coming your way soon!

Friday, November 12, 2010

Halloweeeeeeen

Our Halloween was not just a one day event. It was the. entire. weekend. And the amount of candy could attest for that.

On Friday night, Arianna and Bernie had a sleepover at Marty's parents along with their 3 cousins. Grammy had all kind of fun halloween activities including carving pumpkins, making masks and of course eating goodies. They even brought home (non-candy) halloween souvenirs, pictures to commemorate their night, and their carved pumpkins. According to Grammy, they actually slept too!

Saturday evening we went to a halloween party thrown by my friend Shannon. There was tons of candy, lots of games and toys too. Arianna wore her Tinkerbell costume but Bernie refused to wear his Dash Incredibles costume. He was the only kid not dressed up. (It's okay to be stubborn independent, right?)


Getting dressed and SOOOO excited to be Tinkerbell!


Playing games with the big kids.

On Sunday, we went to our church's trunk or treat with Mimi and Papa. Again, Bernie refused to wear his Halloween costume. However, once Marty came home from work before neighborhood trick-or-treating, Bernie had to wear his costume. And I'm so glad Marty made him do it (afterall, we couldn't let that well spent money go to waste), because he was soooooo cute!






These kids are just so full of fun!


Dash is ready to run for the candy.


Tinkerbell flies off to go trick-or-treating


And a little fall yard deocartions.


Each time Bernie got candy, whether it was at trunk or treat or in the neighborhood, he said thank you and immediately it followed with "Give me MORE candy!" Slightly embarrassing for mommy and daddy but, the boy knows what he wants.

Dino Roarin' 3rd Birthday

Bernie had his 3rd birthday party almost 3 weeks ago, so I guess I'm sticking with the 3 theme by waiting 3 weeks to blog about it.

We had some family and friends over to celebrate Bernie's Dino Roarin' 3rd birthday.
Marty found this awesome cake and even added some special affects of his own.




Oh yeah, this cake had a roarin', action dinosaur along with some smoke coming out of the volcanoes.




(excuse the pink and purple candles, it's all we had on hand)

(That's what happens when your birthday is one month after big sister's)

(I know what it's like to be the 2nd child too.)

(That was a joke Mom and Dad!)

Grammy and her grandbabies along with Bernie's new bike.


Daddy and son moment as son learns the new remote controlled car.

At the end of the night, Arianna exclaimed "I want a remote controlled car for my birthday too!"


Bernie kept asking for "mwore cake" and "mwore pwesents" anytime anyone mentioned it was his birthday. Thank you friends and family, near and far, who made it a great birthday for Bernie!