Yep thats how old I am..

My awesome husband threw me a wonderful surprise party for my birthday!! Well, actually I told him I would love a surprise party for my 30th birthday and I wanted it on my birthday. Then afraid he would't throw me one I got the guest list all ready and posted it on my fridge so he knew I was serious. Then, when it was getting closer I told him we needed to get the invitations out. He then told me he already sent them out!! YEA!! But then no one was saying anything to me... I just thought they all thought I didn't know about it.. So I didn't want to ruin the surprise for them. Then Monday night I got home from work a little earlier since my mom said she would bring my kids to my house. When I got home I had no kids..But I did have a HUGE surprise!! EVERYONE was there SURPRISE!! I really was surprised I had no idea he had changed the day to monday!! It was great!! I LOVED IT!!! Thanks to everyone who came!! I had so much fun! Thanks to my bro, sis in law and sis for helping Bran throw me such a great party!! And thanks to Brandon for being the greatest husband ever!! So far I love being 30!! p.s I don't have any wrinkles or gray hair yet!!

Christmas Day! (FINALLY)

Christmas morning Brandon and I were awoken to this.."MOM!! DAD!! ITS UP TIME!! IM DRESSED AND I WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND SANTA HAS BEEN HERE, I ALREADY LOOKED IN ALL THE STOCKINGS AND IM GETTING A FLASHLIGHT!! LETS GET DOWN THERE AND OPEN PRESENTS!!" What?!!! OOOps I guess we forgot to tell him about the rule of waiting for everyone to wake up before going downstairs, well atleast he waited to open the presents. So here is the calm before the tornato hits: Vaughns stocking: Marshalls:

Here is the flashlight Santa brought:

This is how Vaughn opened his presents:

NEXT

NEXT

NEXT

And Marshall opening his:

working on it

got distracted

still going

and finally opened!!

We had a GREAT christmas!! It was so fun to watch the boys open there gifts. And we all got every thing we wanted... well except when everything was done Vaughn asked was that it? Fortunatly for him we had 2 more families to party with... so no son were not done yet!

Christmas Day continues...

After opening up presents at our place we packed up and headed to my moms for more presents:

And lunch:

Then we headed back to our place where the Brooks family gathered to open present:

WHEW!! What a day!

Christmas Eve

Every year, since I could remember, my whole family gathers at my grandparents house for a Christmas Eve party!! We always have a subway sandwich and pizza for dinner. Odd combination but oh so good!! Im so glad we can continue the tradition with our little people as well! Here are some pictures of us enjoying the festivites. Here is Vaughn getting excited to open presents:

This year we did some christmas caroling before we opened up the presents. We thought it would be fun to do the 12 days of christmas with each group singing a diffrent day. It turned out to be way funny!! We kept messing up and singing the wrong number day. I guess you had to be there.

Someone was worn out from all of our partying:

This is what Vaughn got and it was I quote " what he has always wanted for christmas!!"

For my sister Sara, who couldnt make it to the party due to she lives in Missouri, here is Lisa opening up what you gave her for christmas:

And here it is up close so you can see it better...No its not Marshall I wouldnt give that cute thing away...Its the 20 on her ring finger!

Here are some of the cute great grandchildren. These three are all exactly 3 months apart. First there was Lizzy then 3 months later Marshall then 3 months later Clair! Oh arent they cute!

And here is Marshall in his cute Santa outfit... you can't really tell cause he's trying to eat him feet

Then we were off to our house to go to sleep so Santa could come and visit us!! I love the holidays and getting together as a family!!