Care package for Daniel

Two weeks ago, our adoption agency was sending some staff members over to South Korea for business. They were going to visit our Korean agency and Daniel's foster mother was going to stop by for Daniel's 7 month check up. We were able to send a few items over with our agency and they would graciously hand them to Daniel's caretaker. We sent over a Leapfrog stuffed animal which was programmed to say his English name, a soft blanket that we had slept with for a week (so it smelled like us) and a letter introducing ourselves. We also included a small gift from our town in Colorado for his foster family.

When the staff members came back to the states, they had the most wonderful gift for us! We received a 6 minute video of Daniel playing and 15 new photos. It was such a precious treat seeing the package in our post office box.

Making a Shutterfly book for Daniel

Shutterfly is Wonderful


With the holiday season approaching I know many of you will be making your Christmas cards and looking for great gift ideas. Shutterfly offers so many fun, creative products you can make. Shutterfly is also great in that it stores your images for you free of charge and always offers great deals.

Shutterfly has so many options for making cards. It's a great place to make your holiday cards. Here are a few of my favorites.

Shutterfly Holiday cards

I can't wait to make our holiday card this year. My wonderful sister in law is a professional photographer and takes AMAZING photos. I'm waiting for our holiday pic to be taken next weekend and then I'll get my Shutterfly holiday cards ordered! Shutterfly has designs for everyone and many different styles including Folded Greeting Cards, Flat Stationary Cards, and Flat Photo Cards. They have designs galore so I guarantee you will find the perfect one to send as your Holiday card.

My other sister in law, Yvonne, started a holiday tradition last year of making all the family members calendars for the year. She fills it with photos, birthdays, dated reminders and anniversaries. When you have a large family like mine, that type of gift is so thoughtful!

Shutterfly Annual Wall Calendars

While Dave and I wait for our little boy to come home to us, I am making a photo book of all our family members. I'm going to send it over to Korea for him to look at throughout the day. He'll have some familiar faces greeting him when he finally gets here next summer. I'm making a large (50 pages!) square book. They are so easy to create!
Shutterfly Photo Books

I'm also going to take one of the referral photos of Daniel and have it made into canvas wall art. It will go right on top of the mantle in the master bedroom. I'd post a photo of him here, but we're not allowed to because of legal privacy issues with our agency.
Shutterfly canvas wall art

Thanks for reading about some of the many great products Shutterfly offers and I hope you love the site as much as I do.