Christmas 2012

This year was another successful Christmas Holiday! Zac & I were both lucky to have a couple days off together which is always a plus! :) We spent Christmas Eve at his parents house for their party, drove to my mom's for our traditional everyone sleep at mom's for Christmas, woke up to Santa's presents with all the little kids, stayed at mom's for a while, went to his parents around 1:30pm, opened presents from Barb & Dave, ate lunch, went to my dad's, spent some time there & then went home for a relaxing Christmas Day evening. The 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day was packed full of family parties, visiting & enjoying company! I always LOVE christmas as it's my favorite holiday. I love the music, the company, the feelings, the wonderful cheer, ect that is all brought on by Christmas. So much happen that I decided I would show you in pictures how it all went :)! Prepare for picture overload! :)

Carroll's Christmas Eve Party

Ayla's first Christmas present from Grandma Carroll

A Sleeper & Hat :)

Gift exchange Christmas Eve @ my Mom's

Christmas Morning

Christmas Afternoon @ the Carroll's

It was a wonderful Christmas & we are looking forward to this next month where we will have our little girl :)!

Zac's Birthday Cakes

I have always tried to make Zac a birthday cake for his Birthday. I have made one each year that we have been together & usually I'm pretty proud of myself. This year... ha ha ha it was a bit of a disaster but oh well, there is always next year! I will chop it up to pregnancy brain dead syndrome & lack of artistic ideas :). That sounds good to me!! My mom always made us a special birthday cake and she was great at it! Nothing professional but none the less it was always fun to see what new idea she came up with. I wanted to make sure I spread the tradition to my family which is why I started with Zac! Next Year I will be able to make 2 cakes. 1 for Zac and 1 for our little girl Ayla :) Bring on the barbie dress cakes :)!

21st Birthday - Dice

22nd Birthday - Pool Table

23rd Birthday -  Camping

24th Birthday - Snowmobile mountains

25th Birthday - Lawn Mower (Disaster 101... as you can see, it had a little trouble staying up by itself)

Happy Thanksgiving! Today I am grateful for LOVE

" It was the love of love,

the love that swallows up all else, 

a grateful love,

a love of nature, of people,

of animals,

a love engendering

gentleness and goodness

that moved me 

and that I saw in you."

" Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close i heart."

" It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp".

" Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor it is etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever."

2012 Family Picture Preview

In September we got family pictures. Here is a preview of that day! We took it with Zac's phone but I'm excited to get the actual photos :). Christmas Cards here we come! This will be the first year I do Christmas Cards but I figured that I better get started and practice this year as we will have a little girl running around next year and I'm sure things will be a bit more crazy :)!