My Birthday! 31 - WOW!!!

My family gave me the best birthday ever! We woke up and went to Daylight Donuts then off shopping at Old Navy. Then we went to dinner at Red Robin and went shopping at the mall. They got me a cute hoodie and then we went home for cake. Chris helped Bree make it - she did most of it all by herself!!! And then I went and worked out! Yes -I felt sick the whole time since I ate all that "bad" (really good) food all day.

Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve!!!

Growing up - we always went to my grandparents house on Christmas Eve. They had a big open house every year and everyone would come and go - and eat dinner and give gifts. Well after they died my Aunt and Uncle kept up the tradition and now they do the open house at their house. We went to their house - these are the kids in the car!

When we got home it was time to open the Christmas Eve presents!!! I was so EXCITED about these presents for the kids!!! MATCHING Christmas PJ's - I had drove all over the place to find them in Bree's size!!!

Then we were off to the kitchen to make Santa some COOKIES!!! And put carrots out for the reindeer.

Bree always leaves books out for Santa to read!!

Reading some Christmas books before bed!

And then off to bed :)...................

Bree's Chritmas Present to Mom

Bree came in right before we were leaving to a party Christmas Eve and said "mom come here! I have a suprise for you!!!" She took me into my bathroom where she had set up Red fingernail polish and said "I'm going to paint your nails for the Christmas party tonight - for your Christmas present!" How cute is that!!! (I had paint all over my fingers - but it was so cute!!!)

Gingerbread Houses... FROM SCRATCH

Yep ... we got a recipe - made our own patterns and made our own gingerbread houses. And this is how it went...
It was hard to get a picture of Kaleb :) But he was enjoying eating all the candy and frosting he could get in his little hands.

They turned out great, right?

Well.......... This is what we found the next morning! Long story short - it is worth the $10 bucks to buy the kits! You end up spending less money less time and they stay up! lol

We had a lot of fun doing them though!

Bohn Christmas Party