Christmas

This year we were able to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with the Carter's and then we went to the Coons on Christmas day. Here are a few pictures.
Stockings on Christmas Morning

Aaron got me the 30 minute meals cookbook because he knows how much I want to make meals in 30 minutes!

The Whole Carter Fam (next to Hillary is Tatiana, their foreign exchange student from Brazil-we love her!)

Uncle Aaron and Landon

Grandma helping Landon open presents. He loved the paper and string!

We got Lani measuring cups and spoons from Williams Sonoma and we were thrilled with her reaction.

We saw the craziet/funniest license plate on the drive from Manteca to Alamo. Can you believe someone drives around with this?!

Lyndsey came up with a winning idea for a present for my mom and dad. Rather than getting the same old, we decided to get them tickets to Wicked in LA (they are going down to visit Matt and Lyns anyway at the end of Jan). This will give them something out of the ordinary to do. I think we're all jealous.

Dad asked for a RED wheelbarrow for Christmas. My mom had to search everywhere for it, but finally found it. Dad wore the Santa hat throughout the day.

Look at this big smile!

Grandpa holding a sleeping Kayden. Isn't he precious?

We had a great Christmas with our families, but were sad it passed so quickly. A late Merry Christmas to all!

Hypocrite

As I check everyone's blogs faithfully, multiple times a day, I find myself thinking, "Why haven't you posted?". Now, some of you have but there are others that haven't and then I realized, I am one of you. How can I blame you for not posting when I haven't posted anything about Christmas, New Year's or moving to Roseville? Please forgive me for being such a hypocrite. A new blog is in the works and I hope you'll all be more patient with me than I am with you.

Mindy is 24

I just have to say, as I was reading Emily's blog about Mindy, and then Marisa's blog about Mindy, I felt jealous. Why, you may ask? Well, it's because I felt like just because I didn't do a post about Mindy's birthday doesn't mean I don't love her. It doesn't mean I don't think she is the funniest person I've ever met, or one of the funnest people to hang out with, or that I can't wait to see her this weekend, or that I didn't think about her all day on her birthday hoping she was having a great day. So, us Carter's just want to say, Happy Birthday Mindy. We love you.


PS Did you see our scores on Mel's blog about Mindy? That says something.

Elf Yourself

The other day Aaron's mom, Dee, sent us an email and it had the funniest Christmas greeting ever! We laughed so hard, and we just couldn't resist trying it out ourselves. Copy and paste this link (give it a minute to load):

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1204742199

Isn't that SO funny? We definitely give credit to Dee for finding this holiday favorite. Merry Christmas!

'Tis the Season

On Friday night Aaron and I decided it was time to decorate our apartment for the holidays so we went to Dave's Christmas tree lot and chose a tree. It was such a fun experience for us to get a tree together for the first time. Last year we decided to stick with a small, fake tree and knew that this year that would just not be acceptable. We had the funnest time decorating it and our apartment.


We felt like something was missing, so we went back to Target and got beads, more ornaments, and a blanket to go underneath. This is the finished product.

We put our little fake tree from last year in our room

Some Christmas decor


One thing I love is the candles we have burning from Bath and Body Works. When we were at the Carter's house they had these candles and we fell in love with them. I highly recommend the holiday scent and the Christmas tree scent.
I just love the Christmas season!

Ultimate Christmas Lights

We've all seen those houses that just blow us away with their Christmas Lights. We think we have the house that beats them all. This renowned house in Manteca is beyond anything we've ever seen before.
Here it is.

Here's a video of the house up close--isn't it AMAZING?!!?

If I were their neighbors I wouldn't even bother putting up lights. It'd be too shameful.

We love Landon

We don't have any big events to blog about lately, but we did have a fun day hanging out with Landon, our really cute nephew! Lani and I got pedicures again today, and Aaron got to take him on a walk in his stroller outside--they had some good bonding time. Here's a few snapshots of the little tyke--SO adorable!

Can you believe we have TWO red-headed nephews? And each is from a different side of the family! Some odds...





On a random, extreme side-note: Take a look at this last picture. We thought this was really funny. On a hot day Aaron left his sandals in the car, and when we arrived home, this is what had become of one of them--(it was MELTED by the sun!) Notice any difference? Random, we know...again, we have had nothing big to blog about lately :)