Christmas Family Traditions

Our family has a lot of Christmas family traditions. It's part of what I love about this time of year. And if you know me, you know I love to take pictures, and since I have 3 beautiful little people to model for me, I have a TON to take! One way I share our pictures with family is making photo calendars at Shutterfly and giving them as gifts. The grandparents LOVE them. :) I've also used Shutterfly Birth Announcements for each of my babies, and I love the professional quality and unique styles they offer. But part one of our family traditions is using Shutterfly for our family Christmas card. The website is very user friendly, I always find a great deal, and they make a great personal keepsake for each of my children in their baby books. I always order the 5x7 flat card-stock cards, and they really are much better quality than any others I've found. I know I'll have a difficult time choosing ours this year, they have so many cute designs!


Here are some of my favorite links to their site:

http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary/christmas-photo-cards

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary/holiday-cards

You'll be seeing one of their cards with our pretty pictures in your mailbox pretty soon! :)

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Whoa, has it been that long?

I know most of you are saying, "yes, Abbye. It has been that long!" Needless to say, it has been a very busy summer and fall. So I will try and update sufficiently!

Truett started Kindergarten this year. I struggled with whether to hold him back or not, but we are very pleased with our decision. He is Clyde Bulldog and is VERY proud of it! As we suspected, he has made lots of new friends, is in love with his teacher and is learning very quickly. Of course, he has brought home a few things we would rather him NOT learn, but that's life! He loves coming home to teach us what he's learned that day, and we are always surprised!

Our little Liam turned 2 this summer, and as cute as he is, has the 2 year old attitude! It took him a while to adjust to not having Truett around during the day, he misses playing with him! Liam has developed his personality, and it's a cute one. He is definitely all boy, jumping off everything, growling at anything that moves, and is an excellent grass-hopper catcher. Let's just say, that I am busy from the minute this little joy wakes up in the morning!

And, we welcomed our little princess, Sophia Belle on August 10, 2010. We knew we would love her, but had no idea how this little girl would completly steal our hearts away. She is a very happy, smiley and quiet baby, which is a nice change with my rowdy boys! Truett and Liam are in love as well. They adjusted to her a lot better than I thought.

One shocker was that she was born with lots of dark hair! I love it!

Look at those dimples and cheeks! And yes, I do nibble on them!

Tate is completely in love. I can be in a different room and I can hear him giggling and cooing at her, telling her how beautiful she is! It's so sweet to see them two together.

And this picture shows her adorable personality! She is 3 & 1/2 months old and is giggling, smiling, cooing and is very interested in everything around her. I wish I could freeze time with her. She is our last, and I know how incredibly fast it goes.

Also, Tate started a new job November 1st at CFP Group in Abilene. We had a wonderful 7 months with him at home, and really loved getting to have all that time with him. We prayed for a specific job that would be perfect for our family, our marriage, our finances and that Tate would love and excel at. God answered our prayers with CFP, and we are so incredibly thankful. Tate loves getting up every morning and going to work! What a blessing! He has a boss who loves the Lord and ministers to Tate daily.

As far as myself, I am enjoying being the mother of 3 beautiful kids. I am still trying to figure out how to be productive and figure out how to get it all done while being short on sleep, but am trying to learn to just enjoy each day. I am on some sort of journey with the Lord, it's difficult, but know He is in control. I call it my journey for joy.

So, I've updated. Now I'm going to bed.