Durr Doings: 1st Annual "Cardy" Awards!

Christmas cards are a very big deal at my house. Everyone knows I anxiously await for Thanksgiving to pass so I can start stalking my mailbox each day! I start planning what I'm going to do for my own Christmas card sometimes months in advance. I don't like just a simple photo, Merry Christmas kinda card. The Durr Christmas card has come to be known as usually pretty comical, so I have to build on it each year. But I also love getting everyone's cards. My friend, Shelly is really responsible for making this card obsession. She's more obsessed than I am. She's even had an "A" list and "B" list for her cards.... if she liked ya, you made the "A" list. If you were just so-so or she hadn't gotten a card from you or you were close to going off her "list," then you went to the "B"! She and I have to talk daily to compare how many we got (she usually beats me like 2 to 1) and critique ones that we both got. It's quite funny actually. It has even been the butt of jokes. Someone told me last year they were going to buy a box of cards and send them all to me. And someone actually did that to Shelly! Wrote all kinds of funny stuff in them. It was really funny.
So since this is such a big deal, I decided to blog about it. Also decided that I would start the "Cardy" awards. You know- Emmy, Espy, etc - so I'm doing the Cardy! So welcome to the first annual, Durr sponsored, Cardy awards!!!

We always hang our Christmas cards on the door mouldings in the living room. I want to do the garland thing that Matt and Kyle did last year. When we get about half way down we have to move to the other door. If we don't, Josh likes to pull them down and tear them up and flush them down toilets and eat them and throw them around the house.

I will start by giving away an award for the first card I received. This award also counts as my card from the farthest away. It was from William's cousin, Stephanie, and her family who currently reside in China. I don't know if I'm supposed to say much more than that.... don't want to get them in trouble. And we are definitely going to give an award for a family card, and cutest pet, to William's cousins Matt and Kyle with their dog, Buford. We love their cards every year. Always cute, and we adore Buford.

The second card we got is also one that cracked me up. It is from Ronald and Susan Smith. Cute pic of their cute kids.... their little boy's name is Mitchell. For some reason Jay calls him Bencho. I think he can't say Mitchell. But he loves him... and it is so funny to hear him say his name. But anyway- Susan didn't sign her cards. Not even a name on the envelope. Just an address. Said she doesn't like her writing! It just cracked me up. You have to know Susan. I love her to pieces and she makes me laugh.

This next card gets the reward for "Card that is like a package." I have no idea how they mailed these without extra postage. It is from my pastor and his family. It was a really pretty card, and inside the pocket was a picture on cute paper and then a letter about their year which was told with Grant and Lori's usual wit. But it was seriously like getting a gift. It was thick and heavy and Lori seriously put a lot of work into it. Congrats.