our family Christmas card journey

It’s kind of funny to think that anyone has a Christmas card journey – but you do. For example – here is ours:

 

2014

1st Christmas married – we mailed Save The Dates, Wedding Invites + Thanks Yous all within the first half of the year and I was done. We also had included a wedding picture in our Thank You cards so I felt like that was a sufficient early Christmas card 😝

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2015

We had recently moved to Alabama and didn’t have the extra money.

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2016

Rylie was a month old and I was very much in survival mode so it didn’t even cross my mind.

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2017

We purchased our home the week before Christmas, so all of our extra money went towards that endeavor. But I did create a blog post Christmas card 😉

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2018

Like previous years, we weren’t planning on making a paper Christmas card, instead making another digital one. But a week into December we received a couple cards and I decided I really want to try to make it work. I found a one-day sale through SAM’s Club where you got 100 cards (with envelopes) for $15 with 24 hour turnaround. We also had a credit on our membership so we used that to pay for the cards. When it came to postage, I recently came across multiple books of forever stamps leftover from our wedding 4 years ago. So we basically sent Christmas cards for FREE!!!! 😃 Talk about maximizing our resources.

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Not bad for a decision that was made in 48 hours 😝

 

Anyway, we hope each of you has an incredible Christmas and enjoy every moment celebrating Jesus’ birthday!

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-The Shaver Crew

Aaron, Sarah, Rylie & Emmaline Shaver