Friday, December 19, 2008

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Update: Christmas Letter Disclaimers by family members....

Sheesh...

I spent a LOT of time this year writing the Christmas letter that we sent to our friends and family. I mean a LOT of time. I analyzed each family member and their personality and activities for the year and then I summarized as best I could.

Now, just so you understand, I firmly believe the adage that goes something like this:

"You should never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

I don't know who first said it, so I certainly can't attribute it....but I say it enough to be able to claim authorship by virtue of repetition. 'nuff said.

Anyway, the family is all up in arms because they didn't pay sufficient homage to my efforts sooner, and now they are all in a lather because I said this or that...I'm being burned in effigy by those who profess their endearing love in church...dang hypocrites. :)

OK, I may be taking a little poetic license here, but hey, its MY blog!
I may get around to actually posting the letter, if I get enough requests. However, if you actually FOUND this blog, its because of the shameless plug in the now infamous Christmas Letter you received to begin with.

Merry Christmas ....again!

Christmas 2008


So we sent out the Christmas letters along with this photo of the kids this year. I won't pretend to any consistency in this effort....I don't think we've sent photos or letters for a few years now.
I hope we still have friends in distant places.

I had a tough time allowing the free flow of my creative juices while putting the photo together. I was trying different formats, different print sizes, different backgrounds, color, black & white, vertical crop, horizontal crop....nothing was working. I guess I was trying to pack too much into a little 4x6 print...especially when it was to contain 6 kids. Then, to top it all off, after I was done printing out the 23,095 prints (yeah, we sent a lot of letters...OK, maybe not THAT many) Caitlin perked up and told me in a rather disgusted voice that I had misspelled her name...I can't catch a break.

I hope everyone appreciates the hours spent trying to perfect the end result.
OK, so even if that is a stretch, I'm glad I quit my messing with it and just did what you see here.

Merry Christmas everyone!