We want to meet YOU! - Send us your Holiday Card this Year!

The other morning I woke up around 4:30am.

I shuffled to the bathroom, did my thing and then crawled back into my warm sheets.

How is it that even if I don't drink an ounce of liquid after 5pm, I have to pee at least twice in the night... yet Cason can down a gallon of water right before bed and doesn't even take his first bathroom break till after breakfast?

Having kids ruins ya. It's the truth.

Aaaaanyway...

For some reason, all of a sudden, I was wide awake. I tried to force myself to close my eyes and slip off into sleep again, but I had this nagging thought on my mind that I couldn't shake. 

I got thinking about, YOU.

Yup. Our readers.

People who read about what we have to say on a day-to-day, or maybe even just week-to-week basis.

A question flew through my head that we get asked ALL the time.

"Don't you think it's weird that a bunch of strangers know so much about YOU, but you know nothing about THEM?"

My response:

(shoulder shrug) "Meh."

Sometimes I get an eye roll from people who think about how unpleasant and awkward that would be for their family, other times I get an uncomfortable giggle with comments after, like: "Well... you're just crazy" or "I could never do that, it would be so weird."

But to be honest (and I'm going to assume that about 99% of you have gathered this simple fact already)

I'm just an excitable over-sharer.

Didn't know there was such a thing, eh? Well... there is.

Hello

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Cason on the other hand... notsomuch. The same goes for his family.

While they are hands down the nicest, most charitable, happiest people in the world...

loud, talkative, giggly storytellers, they are not.

I distinctly remember about 3 months after we were married, hanging out at Cason's parents house with his Mom, Dad and a few of his siblings.

Oh sheesh... look at that goofy couple

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I was causally flipping through the latest Better Homes and Gardens magazine when I looked up and noticed almost everyone staring at me. I did the awkward, push-your-neck-backward-open-your-eyes-wide look and said something like... "WHAT? What did I do?"

Cason's Mom replied with...

"Nothing! That's the problem. We're bored, entertain us. Tell us a story."

Ack!

At first I wasn't sure if this was a jab at my overly chatty, fast talking, way too passionate about everything personality... OR... if she was really just simply asking me to strike up a conversation. (?)

Come to find out, gladly, it was the latter. 

While I found this completely strange, because I (along with any one of MY family members) could carry out an entirely colorful discussion with a brick wall... the Smith's weren't really that way. Don't get me wrong, they were awesome conversationalists and always had great, funny things to chat about once they started talking... but sitting around, shootin' the breeze and just talking about everything and nothing, wasn't really their strong suit.

For me?... That's what I live for. That's how you get to know people for who they REALLY are.

Politics, religion, the meaning of life? All important things, don't get me wrong.

But discussing why dried-on Cream of Wheat makes for the hardest substance on earth to clean off of a granite counter top, how I wish I was like a Barbie, whether Heinz ketchup is better than Hunts or why sleepovers on a trampoline are NEVER a good idea with small kids...?

Now that's where the good stuff's at.

Are these things trivial and generally unimportant?

Yes.

But do they make for fabulously interesting and hilarious conversation that most people can relate to?

Oh yeah..

So, my point? And maybe a better answer to that question above...

I have truly never viewed our blog as "something that strangers come to look at", but more as a place where I can chat about the everything and nothings, with friends who can justify my feelings and laugh along with me, compliment us on a job well done when we finish a project and occasionally relate to what I'm going through, as a Mom, wife and creative woman.

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SO. That being said, I've got an idea.

We want to meet YOU and get a little glimpse into YOUR happy life!

How you ask?

Well, (in what may seem like a desperate plea to receive some fun mail... which kinda has something to do with it, I'm not gonna lie), we want YOU to send us your photo holiday card this year!
We're hoping to display them front and center in a special area of our home, designated for happy pictures this holiday season from all the friends we love and appreciate, near AND far! (the world wide web being the "far" part, ha!).

You know a ton about us already, so now we want to see and hear about YOUR beautiful, awesome, special family/life... and since you're already sending out those amazing cards with that picture you spent so long preparing for and taking... now's the perfect time!
Just you, your dog, your kids, the whole crew... whatever you want to share with us is up to you.

Send us your cards here:
The Smith Family

PO Box 203

Sandy, UT 84091

Please Note: Your holiday photo/card may appear along with others in future images on our blog; as part of our decor, and also so we can brag about how cool our readers are.

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I ran this idea past Cason and he's just ask stoked as I am! Whether we get 3 or 300, we're just crazy-excited to know a bit more about some of YOU!

Happy Mailing!