season's greetings.

merry christmas, everyone!

real quick this morning i wanted to send a little holiday cheer your way and share our family holiday card with you all.

so remember last year when shutterfly gave bloggers the awesome opportunity to get free holiday cards and they ended up beautiful like this?

well, wouldn't it be awesome if they offered free cards again?

yes, it would.

but they didn't.

waaamp waaamp.

anyway. so i planned on ordering from shutterfly again, since the cards turned out great before and i've even ordered two photo books from them recently {which i plan to share soon}, but, alas, i am a slacker and by the time i got some pictures of us all it was too late to order them from online to get them to everyone in time... oops.

so i ended up ordering some photo cards from walmart and they turned out great! and, of course, the star of our card this year is none other than the real star of our family...

juliet. duh.

so i'm hoping by this point you've all received your cards in the mail, so i'm not spoiling anything by sharing this. but here she is, the heard family christmas card, 2011 edition.

i find it to be really funny. and i hope you do, too. and if not, bah humbug to you, too.

it should be noted that this was our second attempt at a card this year. our first attempt {for sooo many reasons which were too frustrating to deal with} did not work out. but i can share it with you here. a special web exclusive, one might say.

or... one might say that i am dumb for thinking anyone cares about a web exclusive of our unused holiday card.

but i'm sharing it either way.

so enjoy.

and feel free to laugh at our hideous sweaters.

so there you go, two holiday cards for the price of one. feel like you just got a good deal? no? sorry.

anyway. i hope everyone has the perfect christmas this year, filled with food, fun, faith and, most importantly, family. personally, i'm probably up to my ears in pecan rolls by now. so don't be surprised when i'm 50 pounds heavier by the end of this holiday season.

merry christmas to all and to all a good night.