Christmas Cards

We love Christmas cards here. Joseph really loves them.
Every year we pick "our favorites" and we divide them into different catagories. It's big fun so I thought I would share who won. I don't want anyone to feel left out believe me it was tough to pick a winner this year and we loved them all. Here are the Giardina's 2007 Christmas Card Contest Winners.

First we start with the photo cards.

Our favorite goes to Dom's friend from high school Ed and his family. We liked the simple colors and it rhymed! We loved that the used the card to announce the arrival of their new daughter.












Second place goes to Shauna my friend from high school and her family. We liked the little stockings that matched the number of people in her family. Very nice.
















Third place goes to my friend Valerie. Her family went to Hawaii this past summer and had such a great time. I can almost smell the ocean breeze from this card.
















Now on to the traditional cards.
The overall family favorite was from Val my friend from grade school and high school and her family. Very nice. She had some great pictures enclosed that were professionally done and I don't want to even think about copyright rules so I left it out. Sorry







Second place and my personal favorite was from my Uncle Phil and Aunt Suzanne.


Third place goes to Maurine and Keith Castro our very dear friends and Dom's second mom. Derek really liked this one.











This years honorable mention award goes to Jenn Mendoza and Family our friends from Virginia. It was shiny and Dom really liked that.
















We got a lot of Santa cards this year and this one was our favorite from Margaret and Rodney Castro my aunts sister and husband.



Thanks to everyone that sent us a Christmas card this year. Congratulations to this year's winner and good luck to you all next year. Wink.






*contest rules: all holiday cards must be received between November 24th and December 25th to be eligible. Judges do accept bribes before the contest begins.wink. Cards received containing gift cards did not receive special consideration. (I swear!) Odds of winning are based on number of cards received and the amount of bribe received. For a complete list of this years participants and winners send a self addressed stamped envelope to contest judges with a $100 check and I'll get that off to you.wink Thank you.