Valentines Day Card and...

I hope that everyone had a Happy Valentines Day this past week. I celebrated a birthday prior to Valentines week and it was a wonderful birthday surprise weekend. My husband managed to get with my parents and arrange for them to fly in for my birthday weekend and surprise me. Great time with family and friends and big surprises. It is really hard to surprise me and pull something like this over and they did. He also did a slide show from birth through my new age! Really nice.

I had a wonderful week and the picture above is special custom Valentines Day card that my hubby made for me, from my son. It was very unexpected because I was thinking that it would be a cute card that he would find in the card store, so it was totally unexpected. I really appreciated it. I think he just wanted to surprise me with something different. I never know what to expect.



I'm also attaching the Christmas card that we sent out to family and close friends. We used a photo that we had taken over Thanksgiving out of state. We used the photo and my husband and I created a Christmas card with one of the photos that we had taken. The first picture is a picture of the ornament that my husband made and that was one of the little gifts from my son.
For those who wanted to know, the other gift from my son was a pandora bracelet with significant charms that he let my son "help him" pick out. He was so proud that he was able to go to the store with his Daddy and help with his gift. He kept threatening me over the holidays that he was going to take my bracelet back whenever we corrected him about his behavior and told him that we would remove certain toys. It was hilarious.

We are deep with completing all of his birthday party designs. I guess I need to really get on the ball and just post the pictures from last years birthday party and the showers. I will. I will!

Highlights...part II

Christmas highlights part II

We returned from a wonderful church service and my mother and I began cooking the remainder of the dishes for Christmas dinner. Shortly after we returned to our home, we told my son that he had more presents. He had no idea that we had placed the gifts out after he went to bed on Christmas eve. He walked into the room and he did not know what toy to go pick up first. He was a lit bit overwhelmed, but it was in a good way. He managed to work his way around the room and pick up all of the toys and books and eventually ask for someone to open them. The majority of his gifts were educational toys and books, with very few toys just for entertaining. We picked up those entertaining toys because he consistently asked for the same toys when we asked him or either when people asked him what did he want Santa to bring him.

Here are a few pictures of a small peek into our Christmas Day. He was blessed with so many gifts that I can not even begin to show all of them. My in laws were also in state visiting for Christmas at my sister in laws, so he was able to see both sets of grandparents on Christmas Day. I will have to show a picture of the toy after math as well.


Christmas highlights part III

After going through the unwrapped toys on my 2nd tree, my parents wanted to reveal their big gift which was a big motorized riding jeep. He was so excited. However, we had to let him practice in our garage. My husband removed our vehicles from the garage so that we could have room to allow him to ride and practice. This was truly a work out chasing after him. We also discovered that there were several wrapped gifts still under the first tree that he did not open. He was so tickled with all of his new educational devices and new toys that he had asked for.

Highlights....

My father helping him open some of the wrapped gifts before we had to get dressed for church




The gifts that he opened early that morning before we went to church



A special ornament that my mother and father (his Nana with him in the picture) gave him as a keepsake to put on the tree every Christmas. One of 2 Lenox pieces that my parents gave him that he will treasure and we will treasure as well.



Nana trying to help him open one of the first gifts.







Christmas 2011 high lights.. part I

We began Sunday morning by allowing my son to pull out the gifts in his stocking on his nursery door. Then he was excited and proceeded down stairs to open the wrapped gifts that were under the tree. After he unwrapped the gifts, we all went to get dressed for the one service that my church was having. He was excited about going to church for "Jesus birthday party". It was a cold and rainy Sunday morning here, however, we all packed up and celebrated the true reason for the season and boy did I receive a wonderful message that morning as well.
We decided to wait until after to church to allow him to see the 2nd tree with the unwrapped gifts and toys.
That will be part II.