This is the picture that we used for our first Christmas card. Since Tracey over at Picture This has been running an excellent series on taking that all important Christmas photo, I wanted to share this one.

Our dog Lively was our first "child." We got her about 6 months after our wedding and of course she had to be in the picture. This shot was captured when she yawned, but it made everyone laugh so heartily that it had to be our Chirstmas greeting.

In our seven years of marriage, we have only sent out 2 Christmas cards/ letters. I really want to do one this year and hope we have the money to do so. I might steal Tracey's idea of the picture with the definition at the top of the card and so far I have a few choices:
family
fam‧i‧ly [fam-uh-lee, fam-lee]-–noun
parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.

childlike
child‧like [chahyld-lahyk]
like a child, as in innocence, frankness, etc.; befitting a child

wonder
won‧der  [wuhn-der]
to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe; marvel

togetherness
to‧geth‧er‧ness  [tuh-geth-er-nis] –noun
warm fellowship, as among members of a family.