Our Family's Tradition Is Doing These Christmas Cards, And It's The 13th Year

It took us two years to figure out this one, but we also learned the importance of location when shooting our cards in 2013 and 2014. Both were shot outside in the freezing cold, which really minimizes the number of pictures you want to take. Ironically, all of our cards since 2014 have been shot in the warmth of the indoors.

This year, we came up with the idea of the girls all being the Christmas superheroes, the Santastic 4, and putting Donald Trump in jail. We usually don’t like to get political, but it just felt right this year from our perspective.

2018 is one of our family favorites. While we go by the Sharts online, our last name is Schleuning so we came up with the idea of doing The Shlining Christmas based on the movie The Shining. We shot it at the Seelbach Hotel, one of the oldest hotels in Louisville, and had a blast roaming the halls in our costumes. Mom and dad got to stay in the room that night while the girls went home with “Dodo.” Magic was made… twice.

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