So you know what I love more than Christmas cookies?
Christmas cards. LOVE them.
I love that I have cards from some of my oldest friends in the world, now featuring some of the newest babies in the world.
I love that I have cards from my sister addressed to me and my husband, plus one each to Will and to Henry.
I love that Jen in New York and Susan in Maine can always be counted on to be first out of the gate and into my mailbox.
And that the rest of you can be counted on to dribble in throughout the month, guaranteeing glee each time I open the mailbox.
I love that cards from Mike and Molly came on the same day—still a perfect team, guys, even if you aren’t working together anymore!
I love the gorgeous winter scenery from Maine, the hand-drawn sea otters from Oregon, the glowing fireplace from Massachusetts and the handcrafted photo card from Oklahoma.
I love clever sayings, like the one from triplet-to-be mama Amily and her husband Tyler that says “May you have multiple blessings in 2008!”
I love ones full of news and ones that don’t say anything at all.
I even love the card my husband gets religiously each year from the NYC diamond district vendor that collaborated with him on my engagement ring and the diamond studs that graced my first Mother’s Day. Their faith in us as future diamond buyers is touching, if unlikely anytime soon!
And I love sending out our cards to you.
And while I always mean to get them in the mail sooner each year, I just don’t, and I have one thing to say:
Who ARE you people that already have your cards hanging in my home when I haven’t even received mine from the printer yet?
Just wondering.
Thanks for your cards, we all LOVE getting them.
And while you’re waiting for ours, a few shots that we didn’t use in our card this year. And even though I didn’t take these shots myself, I’m posting them for Best Shot Monday.
And like you have nothing else to do a week before Christmas, some more of those shots, set to music. Merry, merry!
Photos by Nicki Pardo, thanks, Nicki!
Tags: Christmas cards, Christmas photos, outtakes
December 17, 2007 at 9:09 pm |
I can’t believe you got the cards already! The out takes made my day (night?) Keep them coming!
December 17, 2007 at 9:29 pm |
I don’t have mine done either!!! Yikes…after Christmas card it might be!
Those are classic outtakes!!! Needed that laugh tonight!
December 17, 2007 at 9:35 pm |
Wow, you guys are a popular family! I love getting the few cards that I do, too. And I LOVE the reindeer antlers on the little one – too cute!
December 17, 2007 at 9:58 pm |
how cute! i blogged about being one of the first to send out xmas cards every year and waiting by my mailbox for ones to arrive…i’m a mailbox stalker in december
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December 17, 2007 at 10:09 pm |
I love getting Christmas cards, too! (Our list is lengthy — just over 100, and we always receive about that many, too!) My goal is to get them out the door by December 1st, and I mailed them right after Thanksgiving this year! Somehow, one of my sisters (who has FOUR boys) times it so that all her Christmas cards arrive the day after Thanksgiving. I only have one child to wrangle, so I’m still not sure how she does it.
December 17, 2007 at 10:37 pm |
awww that line and me and mike made me happy. And the letter sweaters? priceless!
December 17, 2007 at 10:37 pm |
*about me and mike!
December 17, 2007 at 10:50 pm |
once a perfect team, always a perfect team. thanks for reminding me of that. especially today.
December 17, 2007 at 10:56 pm |
Anyone seeing video there? It was there when I first posted, but now? Gone!
December 17, 2007 at 11:45 pm |
Hey! What great shots! I watched the video! what a neat idea! Thanks for sharing!
December 18, 2007 at 12:03 am |
how cute are your pics! and i love the shot of your cards…i like getting the cards too, although i don’t get very many…
December 18, 2007 at 6:57 am |
hee hee — great stuff!
December 18, 2007 at 7:57 am |
Very cute post . . .and just to make you feel a little better . . .I haven’t mailed my Christmas Cards out yet either!
December 18, 2007 at 9:54 am |
video is there.
December 18, 2007 at 10:02 am |
That one of Wil dancing is so cute! Well, they are all cute, truthfully. So…I take it you are a procrastinator?
I was miffed at myself for not getting the cards into the printer before Thanksgiving. 
December 18, 2007 at 10:08 am |
If I had your address, I’d mail you a card. I love cards too. Even the one from our form financial advisor who probably didn’t even sign it herself.
And yes – Molly’s & Mike’s on the same day – I was impressed as well!
Merry Christmas!!!
December 18, 2007 at 2:28 pm |
i especially love the cards with pictures. i received ones with my friends’ wedding photos, some of pets, some of children, some of new houses. it’s so nice to see what happened in everyone’s lives over the year.
December 18, 2007 at 3:39 pm |
Can’t wait to see the real card!
I don’t think we’re going to get around to sending any this year.
December 18, 2007 at 5:33 pm |
I LOVE Christmas cards too — LOVE THEM!!! Thanks for the shout out. Glad you liked ours. And I love the outtakes!!!
December 18, 2007 at 5:58 pm |
I sent mine out today but you might not get it–red envelope and red machine-stamp ink. The post office might get a little return to sender happy, as was pointed out to me today by the post office guy. We’ll see!
December 18, 2007 at 6:35 pm |
LOL – love the outtakes.
the boys look adorable. i was wishing we had a cool toboggan for our card pics this year. we had to improvise. 
email me.
my cards will finally be here tomorrow. then it’s race like a mad woman to get them addressed and mailed! want to exchange cards?
December 18, 2007 at 10:25 pm |
That’s got to be the cutest thing I’ve seen all week. Love the outtakes, especially dancing Will and the boys “surfing” on a sled!
I always intend to be organized and get them out early, too…but here we are a week to Christmas and I still hake a stack waiting to go out.
December 18, 2007 at 11:04 pm |
LOVE the photos.
And I’m also a totally dork about Christmas cards – I seriously race to the mailbox every day after work. And then I get pissed if M got there before me.
December 19, 2007 at 2:33 pm |
I agree with everyone else – LOVE the phots!
And I am also a total loser about cards – I look forward to this ALL year. Christmas cards are one of my very favorite things about the holidays!
December 19, 2007 at 5:32 pm |
oh my…those photos are way too cute. i LOVE the matching sweaters…you still have plenty o’ days to send those cards out – don’t worry!
December 21, 2007 at 10:22 am |
Your children are seriously so adorable it almost hurts me. And I love Christmas cards too, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I love them more than cookies.
December 21, 2007 at 8:02 pm |
Awesome collection. Even more awesome children. But PLEASE, I just want the cookies. Haha. I kid. Merry Christmas!!
December 21, 2007 at 8:43 pm |
Great photos throughout! I LOVE writing Christmas letters. My first was a parody and we’ve gone on through memos, parables and poems (never ever written from a child’s view or a newspaper format, too ordinary!). Here’s another Holiday Missive fan.
December 30, 2007 at 6:40 pm |
Our christmas cards, yours included, will be up long after the tree is gone. Thank you! And if you knit those beautiful sweaters too, I’ll just die.
December 31, 2007 at 1:28 pm |
those are some great outtakes, looks like they were having fun! I like their antler ears!
January 17, 2008 at 9:35 am |
I am shamefaced to admit that I did not send ONE Christmas card this year although i stll have plans for a New Year card………not QUITE the same is it????
Great little slideshow !!
January 26, 2008 at 9:08 pm |
I’m stuck on, and a little bitter over the diamond studs for mother’s day. Perhaps you could pass on our address to the diamond vendor…
Honestly, what’s it gonna take? Yeesh.