Since all of Ellison's grandparents have now received their Christmas presents, I can finally share the holiday photos we had taken! My sister's best friend, Laura, took these for us at Mayfair. We went early before the stores opened and used their big tree and Santa area as our backdrop! Jay, Kon, and Ryan would not let me sneak into the actual Santa area, so we just stood outside...haha! Laura did such a great job, and everyone loved how these turned out! There may have been tears from more than one recipient...
Ellison also gave her grandparents and great-grandparents handprint Santa ornaments (idea courtesy of Pinterest) with a poem. They were a pain to make (it was at least a 5 day process with clay drying, painting, etc.) but it was worth it when they ended up being super cute!!!
Pinterest is a double edged sword...there are so many cute ideas but sometimes I feel like a bad mom for not making my millions of craft, baking, cooking, decorating, and organizing ideas come to life! Even if I didn't have a full time job, I would never be able to get them all done...so I have cut back on my pinning so I am a little less stressed about all the "projects" I'm not doing!!! But here is the one other Christmas project we did this year...canvases with handprints (similar to the Halloween ones we made)...
We didn't do any New Year's artwork but we will hopefully do something for Valentine's Day! If we do, I'll be sure to post!!! Currently my main project in my spare time is getting ready for E's first birthday party...can't believe it's only a month away!!!!!!!
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