Claire and I put together a notebook of all of our past Christmas cards since 1987. Although Claire has been around for the shortest time, it appears she has made the most artistic contributions to card designs. This includes her “Last But Not Least” illustration of Santa and the reindeer making one last stop on Christmas morning.

Before color printing was readily available, we used to sit around the table and hand color in each card with color pencils. This pre-dates Claire who was amazed to find out we did this. I pointed out one of the early cards that Nicole and Danny helped draw. As we sat around coloring in the cards, Danny suddenly exclaimed, “I forgot to draw arms on Santa!” He had colored in several of the Santas before realizing this.