Our Christmas Cards

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FRIENDS!  It's been a crazy few weeks getting ready for Christmas AND getting Ellie ready for her mission (which just began this week), but it's time, once again, to reveal this year's version of the Christmas card and newsletter! 

I keep thinking that at some point I'll get tired of Christmas cards and all the work they entail, but that day has not come yet.   Not only do I like hearing from long lost friends and relatives through snail mail, but I absolutely love the whole process of sending and creating them.  This year I was excited to have a photo of our whole family together, something that is rare in this missionary era of our family, where we go entire years with kids out in the field.   We bent over backward to get this photo together in the less than 24 hours we had all together after Adam arrived home from his mission and before the B family started heading back to Alabama (you can read more about here). 

I designed the Christmas cards on Canva this year and had them printed at a local print shop.  I've been trying to be better about supporting local businesses, and I like the more reasonable pricing too!    

Here's the back:  

 I've noticed that Christmas newsletters have been falling by the wayside of late, with probably fewer than one in ten of the cards we receive containing one, but I, in all my nerdiness, still love creating them.  Sometimes I worry that they're TMI and perhaps contain a bit too much of the rosy posy of our lives, but I love it anyway.  

Here is ours from this year, in all its hand-drawn glory.  I finished it up while Glen was in the hospital getting his appendix out and had them printed at a different local print-shop that I recently discovered.   I felt very much like a geek sending these out, but, when it comes to Christmas cards, I am pretty geeky, so it is what it is.   

 

 So there you have it...the 2024 version of our Christmas card and newsletter.     And here's a glimpse of the cards we've received as of today.   I imagine that we'll fill up the door next week and spill our collection onto the office door. 

See here for past years' Christmas cards and newsletters.  

Hope you have had a happy and blessed Christmas!  Thanks for following along with our adventures here on the blog! 
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