Christmas Card Tradition

WE LOVE CHRISTMAS and one of our favorite Christmas time traditions is making our silly Christmas cards! It all started back in 2000 with our first house and the old rusty shed out back. To us, it looked like a “White Trash Shack”…and so the idea for our first Christmas card was born! As the kids get older, we enjoy brainstorming with them for each year’s theme. We take the photos separately and then layer them together in Photoshop to create a cohesive scene.  I guess one year we “Photoshopped” the photo a little too well…a few folks actually thought we held our newborn son upside down by his foot (see Christmas 2006)!
Scroll down to see cards from Christmas past!

2021

2020

Hark the Hairy Angels Sing! 2020 was a hairy year…literally and figuratively!

2019

A Wayne (or 4) in a manger…what else can we say?!

2018

This one seems to be everyone’s favorite and is definitely one of ours!

Our son’s face here is priceless!

2017

This so perfectly fits our family!

2016

This card was perfect since that year our kids tried to plan out every second of our lives!
All our daughter ever wanted to do was SNUGGLE!

2015
This one is pretty self explanatory!

2014

Just wishful thinking!

2013

This saying was perfect since Daren had a crazy ring master type mustache that year!

2012

It’s Elvis…why not! Plus, we were missing all of our loved ones in Seattle!

2011

We were feeling saucy! Just kidding, this was the first Christmas back in my old neighborhood!

2010

This was our first year living in Michigan! Since Oliver lost his first tooth that year,
we thought being toothless would only be appropriate!

2009

This was our last year living in Seattle but looking forward
to spending the holidays at home in Michigan and Arkansas!

2008He is the reason for the season!

2007

We wore ugly Christmas sweaters before ugly Christmas sweaters were cool!
This Christmas photo is the only one we actually took together…so far!
The kids faces are hilarious in this one.

2006

Seriously, we had a few people concerned that we actually held our newborn up by his leg! We promise, he was laying on the bed, then photoshopped in!
No babies were hurt while taking that year’s photo!

2005
The title to this one was We Three Kings, Disoriented Are!
We had a toddler…need we say more?

2004

An oldie but a goodie…we are wearing nothing but crazy hats!

We seem to be missing 2002-2003, which was our Pre-kid era
when we dressed our dog and cat up as reindeer! (Not missing Much!)

And the one that started it all…

2001


I’m dreaming of a White Trash Christmas!

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