An Anniversary and FOUR more Birthdays!

Stephanie celebrated her birthday December 9th! I am sure she will kill me for putting this picture up, but OH WELL! Happy Birthday!!

My mom and dad celebrated their 29th anniversary on December 21st.

They NEVER get each other anything, but this year my dad surprised my mom with a really neat gift!
He got her a wood photo album that has a family tree on the front and all of our names and birth dates engraved on the inside cover. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.)

He had Allison and I print out some of our favorite wedding and family pictures to put in it before he gave it to my mom.

Jade and I shared our birthdays this year. Mine is December 22nd and Jade's is December 27th.

Allison made us this YUMMY yellow cake with chocolate icing!! It's our family's favorite...
There were nine candles for Jade and four candles for me (the 4 of 24); not only did we not have enough candles to put 33 on the cake, but we also thought that might just be enough to set off the smoke detector!

Again I say... YUMMY!!! Four layers!!!

Jade getting ready to open her presents.

She got Clue from Sara, one of Allison's best friends...
and SHOES, her favorite from granny and granddaddy! Jade got lots of other great gifts too!

My turn! This is me acting surprised when I opened my present from my parents, jeans! I could have never guessed?! If you couldn't tell by now, I picked them out!! I needed some new jeans pretty badly!
Allison got me a new purse and some really warm slipper socks!
We celebrated all of this then we did Christmas!!! It was a very full day!

Wondering who the fourth birthday is? Chris' mom... Her birthday is December 23rd!
We didn't actually get to get together for her birthday; this is a picture from Christmas at their house the next day, reading to her three youngest grandchildren! They definitely love their Mimi!!

As you can tell we always have a VERY busy December!!