in case you're dying to know...

I did survive the last weekend and WE WON the vball tournament!

Pretty exciting:)

So now the big church lunch is over, the game behind me and nothing to stress over...except Christmas. Just kidding, I'm not really even stressed.

The first of our 3 parties start tomorrow at the Old School Center...where my studio is, which is pretty convenient since I've got 3 sessions scheduled there starting @ 3:30 tomorrow:)

My goal is to be done by 6 so I can enjoy the Meister party. We spent Thankgiving tearing a roof off of our rental house so I did not get to enjoy that day and play vball w/the Meisters so I'm excited to go!

Gotta make a dessert and bring a salad topping and maybe some crackers and cheese but no real cooking/baking. A certain really smart person suggested we just order pizza & have a salad bar instead of us all trying to cook stuff and get it there so it should be a piece of cake.........ok the smart person may have been me:)

Then Saturday is our Christmas, we'll get up and open gifts then I'll make a big breakfast and spend the day relaxing. That night Grandma Meister and 2 of my sisters will come over for supper and maybe play some games.

On Sunday it's stockings then off to church then over to the Sauder's for their Christmas.

This morning there was a frost covering the fields so after walking I grabbed my macro lens and shot a few pics.








God's decorations put mine to shame!

Christmas checklist

Sessions done..........check.
Orders placed..........check.
files backed up........check.
shopping done..........check. (thanks to ebay and walmart.com)
Christmas cards done..check. (even though I used old pics...i know, it's terrible and i'm ashamed of myself but they were from THIS year so that's not too bad)
presents wrapped........nope. They are currently piled in a corner in my office w/a blanket over them. (if any of my kids still believed in Santa they should be getting suspicious by now:)
Over all I'm feeling pretty organized, for the most part.

I ended up running out of cards so if you didn't get one I'm very sorry, just no time to order more. Anyway this is what I sent out....
front:

and back:


This was very last minute because when you've got boys they are just not wild about getting cleaned up and hair cut and taking family pics so this was the best I could come up with but I've had sooo many people come up to me and say they thought it was hilarious. Personally I'm thinking it's a great add for Photoshop:)

The last big thing on my list is that we are in charge of serving lunch at our church this sunday for about 400 people. I've got 63 dozen doughnuts ordered, 900 slices of ham and cheese, 4 gallons of sweet pickles, 10lbs of clementines, and lots and lots of Christmas cookies. After that I have my big volley ball tournament that same night, we are currently in first place......I know we're not supposed to wish any of our days away but I think I may be relieved when this weekend is over!