Every post is better with photos so I thought I would share a few from our latest family shoot while we wish you Season’s Greetings.

We take lots of photos of Seven and we try to be conscious about making sure that one of us is in a lot of the photos with him, but images of all three of us together are fewer and farther between.  That why we are so grateful to have wonderful friends who just happen to be talented photographers that we can do Christmas card photo swaps with! :0)  We went out last month will our friends Phil and Mindy to do a family shoot for our holiday cards and I love the images they created for us!  Thank you guys soooo much!  Here are a few of our favorites.  Hopefully you sent us your address so you can see what we did with them because I have to say, when making that creation I was in rare form if I do say so myself. ;0)  ha!

If we didn’t have your address to send our Christmas wishes to you personally, we hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season and that your Christmas is spectacular!  We appreciate you checking in on us on our little blog so much and love hearing from you, or just knowing you’ve stopped by. :0)  We look forward to lots more dialogue and adventures in the year to come!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

- Sean, Mel, and Seven

To my beautiful wife:

I am so ridiculously proud of you!  You have been such a wonderful addition to my life since we met 14 years ago.  I’m so happy to have shared every moment with you–and now, to see what a great mother you are to our son is nothing short of fantastic.

Happy Birthday to you with love,

From Sean & Seven

December.

How did this happen again?  It was *just* December… and now, here we are again. Already.  It’s about to be 2011.  2011—that sounds so much like the F U T U R E.

December means holiday time! And speaking of holidays, today marks the start of our First Annual  Christmas/Holiday Card Contest!  Checking the mail at Christmas time is one of our very favorite parts of the season! We love seeing what people put together for the cards they send out every year–so please drop one in the mail to us!  We’ll be picking our favorites and featuring them on our blog at the beginning of the year. In addition to that, our favorite card wins a $10 iTunes gift certificate!  How’s that for incentivizing good mail? ;0)

Our mailing address is:

Sean & Mel McLellan
114 Pearl St.
Franklin, TN 37064

Also, we’re really excited about the card we put together this year, and would love to send it to you!  If you’d like one, just email me (sean@mclellanstyle.com) your name and mailing address, and we’ll drop one in the mail for you!

Looking forward to seeing your cards!

This year for Thanksgiving we made it back down to our traditional Thanksgiving stomping grounds in Orange Beach, Alabama.  Sean and I started making the trip with his grandparents and whoever else wanted to join us several years ago and we just love it!  I cook every Thanksgiving dish known to man while we listen to the sound of the waves from the open patio doors and then we stuff ourselves while enjoying the warm breeze.  Cornbread dressing, corn pudding, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole….mmmmmmmm….the perfect Southern Thanksgiving.  It is bliss.  This year was especially blissful as it was Seven’s first Thanksgiving and to have him here with us, alive and well, is the ultimate thing we are thankful for.  Our little man has been to Iceland and China, but never to the beach so we enjoyed sticking his toes in the sand and letting the waves lap up on his feet.  I’m not exactly sure what you would call his reaction – let’s just say, as you can see from the photo below, that he was very intently interested. :0)

We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving with those you love!  What are your Thanksgiving traditions?  Is there something amazing we’re missing out on and really must try adding to our family traditions roster?  If you’ve not tried Thanksgiving at the beach, I’ve gotta tell ya, you might want to try it on for size!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Thought I’d post a few quick photos from our Halloween. We thought and thought about what we could possibly be for Halloween as a family and we finally landed on this. Seven does rule the roost after all, although in a cuter fashion than the original Dark Lord. ;0)

I know I know, we’ve got the genealogy a bit backwards, but Princess Leia was just a lot easier to come by than the other female Star Wars characters!

Baby Darth was pretty determined to be eating leaves rather than taking pictures…

After walking around the neighborhood, we came back to the house to pass out candy.  Sean’s way-cool-biker-gang grandparents greeted the trick-or-treaters.

All in all, it was a fun, low-key evening. :0)  Hope you all had a great Halloween as well!