front of our card
back of our card
I’m writing this from my iPhone because our Internet has been down for over 24 hours!! I really wanted to schedule it for 12:01 am, too… Anyway, I really wanted to share with you today, so thank goodness for my new phone!
We took these photos the day after Thanksgiving, and they were intended for our holiday card. Well, they didn’t make it before Christmas, so they became “Happy New Years!” cards. Considering I had to edit all the photos and design the card, then print them out and assemble them, I’m sure you can guess why it didn’t happen until after Christmas! My mother and I agree that it’s still “the holidays” until New Years, so i thought we should just go ahead with them since we spent so much time taking the photos, even if I don’t like the way they came out. I particularly dislike the family picture we got, and this was the best of probably 40 shots! I think my face looks huge, Laelia has her finger in her mouth, and Tyler doesn’t look very present… but whatever. My mom will probably love it.
The actual photoshoot itself was a huge ordeal in which Laelia cried and wouldn’t sit still for essentially the entire time, and it caused us to probably take at least TWO hours just snapping photos and it ended with me joining her in a cry fest! Needless to say, we didn’t get a photo we really loved, and everyone just ended up grumpy. Although I know that this is a totally normal occurrence when people attempt a family portrait, especially with young children, I don’t exactly understand WHY?!! Clearly, I’m a little scarred…
Anyways, time to reflect on the past year, and think about the next! 2011, although not without it’s hardships, was definitely better than 2009 or 2010. I’ve wanted to share a little bit about what we’ve gone through for a while, because I feel we can’t be alone, right? And we’ve felt very alone in all of this sometimes… (Fair warning; wordy-wordy-wordiness follows…)… Continue Reading
