It was one of those ideas that came to be that added another check to the 'reasons I love my husband' list. We were living at camp and Jer came across a big frame on camp in storage that wasn't something anyone in modern times would ever enjoy displaying in their home. Then an idea was born. We would make a family art piece to decorate a big wall at Christmastime. We needed to paint the frame (which Toby did for us) and then start creating. Year 1:
December 2008
Handprint Christmas tree's. Payden & Lincoln 3years 3 months. Hailey 1 year old.
The next year, just paint over and create again...
December 2009
Decorated 'ornaments'. Payden & Lincoln 4years 3months. Hailey 2years old. Taylor 7months old.
Ahhh where is that smooshi faced Hailey?!
The idea was to take pictures of the kids with their creation, but we had some computer problems and lost the one of the kids before it could be permanently saved...sad day.
December 2010
This is a 'strand of lights' the kids thumbprints being the lights.
December 2011
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I can't get enough of Taylor's face in this picture!
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The kids each did two snowflakes out of paper and then we mod podged them on.
December 2012
Whatever, getting them all in a picture is good enough, someone will inevitably be blurry! They were all super proud of their reindeer footprints, and take more and more ownership of the piece every year! By the way, where did my babies go?
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3 comments:
We lost one of the kids? That's a bad year. I think that we should print/frame one picture from each year to hang under the painting.
I love this idea! Family traditions are the best.
I love the idea of your life being "layered" on the canvas....keeping the years before it, but still able to capture more in the future. Beautiful family tradition.
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