Free holiday cards from Shutterfly!

Since we live far away from our family and many of our friends, photo Christmas cards have become a must in our repertoire of holiday traditions. It's a way to share some moment of our lives in the past year with people we may or may not be able to see often! I'm sure this will become more and more important, especially if we are blessed with children in the future. Might as well get into the habit now!

This year, Shutterfly is offering 50 free holiday cards to bloggers. If you have a blog and want to sign up, click here. If you don't have a blog you can still check out their amazing cards! Shutterfly also offers several other ways to share photo memories with your loved ones, including mugs and totally sweet canvas wall art.

I personally love Shutterfly for their photo books. In my younger years I did it the old-fashioned way and scrapbooked. Those of you who knew me then know how much time that took up! I still love to scrapbook, but with all my spare time I've been doing photo books instead.

Welcome to the world, Abigail Jane Bouse!

My sister Lauren had her baby last night at 5:57pm in Bryan, Texas! They decided not to find out the sex of the baby so it was a surprise to all that it was a beautiful baby girl! She was born 3 weeks early due to some blood pressure issues but is doing well. She's 19 inches and all of 5 pounds, 7 ounces.

Travis and I cannot wait to meet her when we go down for Christmas. In the meantime, pictures will have to suffice! Maybe we can talk Lauren into Skyping with us or something...

Sorry for the small pictures - they were taken from Lauren and Jim's blog. If you'd like some better ones, click here. Now, I'm off to buy some cute pink things, whether my sister likes it or not!!

A Gorgeous Fall

This year we've had an unusually long Fall for Colorado. Typically the leaves will start to turn yellow, then we'll get some freak snow storm or cold snap in October and all the leaves just die and fall off. This year, however, we've had a relatively warm and long Fall. The mercury has been dropping steadily at night, but our days have typically been in the 60's and 70's, with some days of 50's sprinkled in. This has made for some gorgeous colors around here. I enjoy it especially in the morning. One day as I was driving in the neighborhood near school a slight breeze picked up and blew some of the bright yellow leaves off some Aspen trees - it was so pretty to see them fluttering to the ground everywhere!

I only got a few shots a couple of weeks ago when I was in Golden, but I think I'll be remembering this Fall for quite some time. The pictures don't really do it justice, anyway. There's something about being surrounded by all of those beautiful trees and fire-red bushes out in the crisp, cool air.

 As I'm sitting here typing we're in the middle of our first cold snap. The high today is in the 40's and Denver got its first glimpse of snow yesterday. There's more to come tomorrow, with a high of 33!