K’s Birthday
Every year, my birthday falls on whatever day in December is most convenient for us to celebrate. This year it happened to fall on Dec. 22. Ryan took me to see the movie “In Time” (entertaining except for the overt socialist metaphor) and to dinner at the Macaroni Grill (Yum!).
Yay for presents. R got me some (desperately needed) new clothes in the form of a gift card and the three wise men for my nativity. I love my beautiful nativity.
And 29 is starting out pretty fine. Here are my favorite things about turning 29:
1. I’m not 30 yet!
2. I only aged one year, unlike last birthday where I spent the entire previous year thinking I was 26 and therefore aged 2.
Christmas
In all, we got 3 Christmas mornings this year. We started out at my parents’ having fun with them and my bro and his wif.
E entertained grandma with his enthusiasm over numbers.
Christmas eve, we went to visit my Grandma. E LOVES GG. He plops himself in her lap every chance he gets.
L2 met us there and showed off her new gryphon (sp?) suit. She designed, built and sewed this all by herself. It’s pretty amazing.
Though E didn’t quite know what to think about the giant bird-lion.
Then, finally came Christmas morning.
E really got into opening presents this year. When we told him there were no more presents, he actually screamed in frustration :)
He loved his toys and his books, especially this tractor.
But, his favorite was probably this can of pringles. Guess we don’t have to overdo it so much next year.
Everyone was right who said Christmas is so much more fun when you have kids!
We also got to talk to my missionary brother which was a lot of fun. L1 & L2 came over for the call and K conference called in so it almost felt like we were all together again.
Then, we came home that night and had Christmas #2. R & I opened our own gifts to each other. Ryan wrapped about a dozen books individually so there was lots of wrapping paper around. :)
Christmas #3 came the next day with R’s family.
And scored lots of great gifts like this USEFUL gift. Boards!
Evan loved it, of course. I hope he doesn’t think this will happen every day :)
The J2 and N surprised us with some hilarious games, one of which resulted in the most flattering collage I’ve ever created.
It was a lot of fun to spend time with our families
R’s birthday
R’s birthday was kind of a mirror of my birthday, hence the cheesy-pointing-at-presents picture of each of us.
Not because we’re boring (which we kind of are) but because we like movies and food, I took Ryan to see Sherlock Holmes (good except for the over-the-top ending) and to dinner at Texas Roadhouse (Yum!)
E’s birthday
And, of course, E turned two! Stay tuned for more on that coming soon to a blog near you.
And then the season of gifts gifts and more gifts was over. I can hardly wait for next year.
1 comment:
fun celebrations! Christmas is way more fun with kids. Last christmas Jack was pringle obsessed too!
Looks like you guys had a good holiday and my favorite pic is Evan's face sitting on gryphon-face's lap...that is one for the bulletin board!
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