My Very Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas,cause I did! Surrounded by family is the bestest(I know it's not a word,but I just made it one) thing ever! ;)
Although my sister (who lives out of state),my brother in law, my dear nephew and nieces didn't come up for Christmas
:(
I miss them very much!

Okay, now on to my Christmas day! ;)

I woke up about 6:00 (whoa,a new record,for getting up late on Christmas)!!! I was totally shocked that my 5 year old brother didn't get up until almost 6:30! (He was up at one 1:00 AM on Thanksgiving waiting until morning. And at 6:00AM he went around the house with a little bell and yelling "everyone get up it's Thanksgiving! So cute =) )

So I took a shower waited an hour and my parents were almost up my grandpa was up(he spent the night) and with the help of a light switch and Samuel we got my sister up! :)

We excitedly  gathered up our presents! My daddy read the Christmas story and than we did oldest to youngest in opening Christmas presents!(It's been a while since we went in that order)!!!

I got from my parents a shirt,sweater,and a stainless steel friendship cup that you can put a photo in!
Both of my grandparents got all us kids gift cards (I got one for Walmart and Kohls I've been needing a wardrobe,so Kohls will def. work)

As family gifts we got the movie "Iron Will" (great movie if you never watched it you should some scenes a little dramatic for kids who cannot understand whats happening.), Scrabble card game,and A Pictionary card game (both played a little differently for the original board games)!

Are grandma got us a mini popcorn maker(like at movie theaters) exact it makes a about half a gallon of popcorn! My brother Kyle cam over Christmas Eve and got us all a dart board(and darts) the movie "Despicable Me", A tin can of popcorn some fun dip candy and a movie called "My sisters keeper." I didn't like it very much. (it should be rated PG-17 we fast fore ward some of it) I didn't watch the every part of it! I think that's all he got us( awesome big brother.. heh...)

My married brother and wife got us a family gift season 3,4, and 5 of the Cosby show! Another Awesome sibling! That's pretty much it! Oh,and my younger brother Aaron got my a knife with wild horses on it! lol,it was fun un-wrapping,lets just say it involved lots of wrapping paper,boxes,plastic wrap,foil and a gift bag! =)

Here's some photos!

Christmas Eve decorating the tree:

Lydia decorating the tree!

                                      It isn't a normal if you don't break an ornament by accident while  decorating the tree at our house! :) another tradition!

Ethan stringing some popcorn for the tree!

The tree Christmas morning!

Me! Please no comment on my hair! I just got out the shower and I twisted my hair like this and than sperated them into a bunch of small ones when they dried!

He got a hoodie! He told me while waiting for evernyone to awaken he hoped he'ld get one!

Ethan got a bow and some arrows!

We knew it was something with hunting cause the box said it was from a hunting company!

My sister thought it was funny that we couldn't figure it out!

My dad got  a nice outdoors work jacket!

        
                                                          "Look where the dart landed!"

Lydia!

                                                                           Samuel

Haley

Haley and I! Shes growing so much already a few days over 2 months!

                                                 A quick shot I did of Ethan and his bow! He didn't want to pose for me,so I tried to hurry a shoot a photo!

                                                                   He knows what is!

Kyle got a toaster oven thing! Perfect for his new apartment!

                                                              My nephew Connor!

Myself opening my gift from my brother Kyle (us siblings exchange names and Kyle got me)

Samuel got Lydia's name for Christmas and got her a snowboard!

                              We finally got our new electric baby grand piano that our wonderful grandma gave us (cause shes moving) in the house!! After carrying it in our trailer all the way from Florida to Ohio we are excited to have it in our house! :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Cause I did!          

I feel like I'm going to die.....

I woke up,went to the barn,cleaned the stall,fed my horse, worked with him,got him freshwater and I came inside....So why do I feel like I'm going to die? Cause when I came inside and went to change my thighs were covered in little bumps itched like crazy! I showed my mom and well,she was worried(and like oh,no again) and of course 'Oh,my go get some allergy pills now!' escaped her mouth(I have awesome mom) So I did and its spread below my knees already and my chin is itching now! Aghhhhhhhhhhh......... I've had this before,but it's usually when I eat something with dairy or wheat in it and it usually starts on my stomach and goes every where and are usually big bumps,but these are small little ones and my legs look like they have a horrible disease and are becoming deformed or something! I'm posting about it to get my mind off my itching in case you were wondering!
Were going to clean the house and than go to my brothers first apartment (that just happens to have an indoor pool)!! I'm excited!

Well,I think I'm going to try to edit some photos for my Christmas post! :)

Christmas Confessions

Confession we didn't get a Christmas tree until the day before Christmas eve.

Confession we didn't decorate our tree until today!

Confession I didn't get my parents any presents. (Gasp, I know I'm horrid,they'll just have to suffer and just get me :) )

Confession I tooks more photos than I did put ornaments on the tree.

Confession we only got a 5ft tree

Confession I'm not as excited as I used to get around Christmas.

Confession I'm getting excited about my photography contest. (I hope a lot of you will enter.)

Confession I haven't worked with Peak in about a week!

Confession this is my last confession for this post!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I wonder how many people have used that phrase on the internet this winter..hmmm....

Anywho, I was busy making GF (gluten Free,meaning Wheat free,barley free anything with gluten) Rolled sugar cookies and Snickerdoodles!   Yum... and of course I have photos (that's really why I'm posting :) )

I love this flour mix. When cooking Gluten Free you usually use like 3 diferent types of flour. But this is pretty much a GF flour mix! :) So I use it like flour!

 My brother took this when I was talking to my sister!

                                                                     

                                        Smearing coconut oil on the pans! We use coconut oil cause the Pam spray   
                                         (which we usually use to greases the pans) isn't GF!

                                            When bored ideas spark,luckliy for me it was one that wouldn't be   
                                       anything that could get a mischvious person like myself in trouble! ;)

                                           Snickerdoodles.... a big favorite at our house!

                                                      Snicker doodle tree! We actually just got a small like 4 ft tree today!
                                                     we usually go out and go out and cut down our own,but this year we didn't feel like getting a tree. But Ethan wanted one,so we got one! We'll probably decorate it tonight!

                                 It all ends in a cookie Pile! :) Well...that and 
dishes,pans,etc... to wash! ;)