Yes yes… I promise I will post the FULL christmas card after I get them mailed for all of you, my bloggy friends, who I would SO be friends with if I knew you IRL!!!  I managed to have a brilliant idea this year of a method to photograph my kids!  One day, about an hour before Owen got out of school, we dressed the two little kids and took them to Keeneland.  We photographed them individually and together.  THEN we picked up Owen and threw him into the mix getting the pics of the THREE together first before the little kids melted down.  Troy put the little kids in the van to watch a movie and I finished up with Owen’s individuals.  It was a SUCCESS!!!  I was able to get some of the best images I have been able to capture of my kids EVER!!  I keep holding on to hope that it will get easier to photograph my brood but with them all having a wicked case of PCS (photographer’s child syndrome) I don’t if it will ever be EASY!  LOL

This is what resulted!  These are not images that will be included in the card but a few that I thought were really cute also!  Can you guess my Christmas card theme?  Leave me comments and if you DO guess my theme I will send you a little something to get your holidays started off right!!!

Thank You, Thank You… yes we agree…. they are incredibly cute!  I have to say I am pretty proud of their outfits also!  I pride myself on being a thrifty nickel and these outfits cost me, in total, less than $30!!!  How?  Well Ross’s pink tie was OWEN’s pink tie from two years ago.  His tan vest and white shirt were two things he has had in his closet since.. forever maybe!  Both of the boy’s corduroy pants are from yard sales at $2 each (both Gap adjustable waist at that!).  Shoes are from consignment including Ky’s.  Ky’s dress is a yard sale find that I paid $8 for (but actually I probably didn’t pay that much because I bought a LARGE lot of gymboree stuff and if you divide this dress into that lot I ended up paying like $1 a piece for the clothing….).  Ky’s hairbows I hand made.  Owen’s sweater is a yard sale find for $4 and his pink polo underneath is from Ky’s part last year (the boys wore pink and green!).  How’s that for throwing it together?  I think I did pretty darn good!

Ky had a little cream sweater (that was sent to her from a coupon friend of mine… HI DREA!!!!) that she will wear at the holidays but it was warm enough outside this day that she really didn’t need it and I really wanted the pink on her dress to show.  Nothing like taking Christmas pictures when its 70 degrees outside!  LOL

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