The cards

Prepare yourself for a shock.

Ready?

I did not design my own Christmas Cards this year.

GASP!

Thanks to pure laziness and a tantalizing offer from Card Store (39 cents each for a folded 5x7 card?  Plus free shipping?  And you put my return address on there?  SOLD!), I ordered pre-designed cards. 

I know, right?

It didn't help that I fell in love with the first card I saw on their site.

 And I could add another picture on the inside of the card. 

It's all just too good to be true!

Also, when the cards were delivered, they came in a fancy little box full of confetti.  It was like opening a box of pure happiness.

Getting these babies ready to mail was a family event.  I used the old home printer to add the addresses (a service which Card Store offers for free, but I didn't want to spend the entire night typing 50 addresses on the internet... instead I spent two days doing it on Word).  Adi and Porter helped with the stuffing and sealing.  I sat back and took crummy pictures of them on my iPhone because I was too lazy to get my camera.

Ready to be sent off.

And no, we didn't get Christmas stamps.  Have you seen the line at the post office?  I just bought these one from the checkout at Walmart!

And... here they are (if you weren't oh-so-lucky enough to get one yourself).

They open!  They really open!

See that space between the message and our names?  That's a spot for writing personal messages.

 I did not write a single one.

Tis the season!