christmas card update

remember that whole christmas card dilemma?  well, your suggestions were good ones and i started putting my google fingers to work to see if i could find something that would work.  but over and over, either i wasn’t a fan of the card designs, or they were way to expensive.  still in a bit of a pickle, i headed to utah for thanksgiving, and asked my friend corey if he could take some photos of me for possible use in the card.

we headed out for our photo session, and i had a specific goal in mind.  though it took a couple of 'locations' i felt confident that there was at least one that would balance that fine line between vain and pathetic.  and after reviewing the shots, i was relieved to find that i had been right.  all that was left was to find the right card to complement the photo, and jill came to the rescue with her flyer from shutterfly.  i instantly fell in love with several of the designs, and quickly hopped online to see the whole selection.  these are some of my favorites:

so what do you think?  do you love these as much as i do?  you can check out the rest of the designs here. and if you want to see the final product, be sure to email me your address!

and bloggers, if you'd like 50 free photo cards from shutterfly, check out their cool promotion!  

a pictorial recap: thanksgiving in utah

ah thanksgiving. you dear dear holiday dedicated to food and gratitude - two of my favorite things!  this year, you whisked me away to utah for a much needed vacation (another favorite thing).  and bonus! it was quite the winter wonderland (yet another favorite thing).

more of my favorite things include:

spending time with the burk family

spending time with MY family

snowcapped mountains

meeting the new additions

making friends out of new family members.
(i have the greatest cousins-in-law!)

eating at diners, drive-ins, and dives dives
(moochies)

inflatable hammers!
(me and the virginia nelsons)

delicious thanksgiving buffets (like the one at the grand america) 

question of the day

i'm a big fan of christmas cards (even though the laziness of recent years may not convince you).  i'm also a big fan of photos.

seems obvious that i would be a fan of photo christmas cards.

but photo christmas cards are made for families (you know what i mean), and i am a family of 'me'. which of course, is not to say that i don't have family, but that at 34, with both siblings balled and chained and babied up, the  'parents and brothers and sisters' card (geographically, if for no other reason) is long since past it's prime.

the 'me and the dog' thing just seems kind of...sad.  and the 'just me' thing seems kind of...vain.  so i want to know if any of you creative types have any great ideas as to how i can actually pull off a photo christmas card without falling into either trap?

help. please.