15th Birthday!!

I just don't know how I am the mother of a 15 year old!!!  Where has the time gone?

My kids get a party every other year.  They know on party years they don't get as many presents.

Because she had alot of people that normally come (I mean our Ohana alone is 10 kids! Then we have to add in her team at dance which is 13 kids - but I knew being the only day this month we didn't have dance on a saturday most of the team would have already had plans - which was true...)

So we choose bowling since that seemed the most cost effective.

 

Her with her friend that doesn't go to her school anymore.  They are so cute together!

 

She didn't know HOW the heck she got a spare!

 Opening presents. 

 She really loves those oreo candy bars!

 Her friend got her a really nice bracelet and earring set!

 Can't go wrong with art supplies!

 

 The theme was mason jars - but really the only part of the theme was on her invitations and the goody bags!  But since we didn't really have decorations we spent a little more on the goody bags and put the good candy in it.  All of her favorites!

 On her actual birthday yesterday!!  We just got this new pair of LuLaRoe's and she was excited to wear cup cake leggings to school!

 These glasses!  She's had them since she was 7.  She used to wear them to school.  Now she just wears them for a picture and leaves them at home.

Back when she was 7!!! My how time has passed!

 I have an album on Facebook of every Jan 28th and her in her birthday hat for that year.  My husband asked how long I was going to keep making the birthday hats for the kids and I told him - "originally I planned to stop at 18, but I can't totally see me keeping it going longer!!"

 Her OWN rain jacket.  Now she can stop stealing mine!

Can't go wrong with chocolate!

 She found a pair of glasses in her room and we have no idea who they belonged to.  But they are mens sunglasses.  She's been wearing them because she feels "cool" in them.  SO I made sure to get her a pair of her own girl sunglasses! :) her face.  Kills me.  She knew EXACTLY why I got her them.  To replace the ones I didn't like! :p

 This is the only gift she actually asked for.  She was no help in the present department this year. 

Christmas Day!!

This is the day I prepare for and wait for every year!  I LOVE Christmas!!

 Our tree with the presents before my husbands family arrived.

 Every year I get a picture of my kids in front of the tree!  We all had matching PJ pants!

 He ALWAYS wants to dab in a picture.  She always tells him "dabbing is dead!"

Santa finally came!  I had the toughest time getting Cale to want to go to bed.  He finally fell asleep at 1045! All the presents were wrapped and just waiting to come out of hiding!

 Playing with what was in his stocking!

 She loves these hats!

 Normally Mason lays right here but with all the kids trying to open presents he was a "little" in the way!  He wasn't happy when we made him move!

 Santa brought Cale a double decker bey blade stadium!

 Santa brought Kennedie cat Bob's!

 Cale had his back to me so I didn't get alot of pictures of him.  Normally we do one present at a time and watch as the person opens it, apparently Tim's family doesn't do it that way so I had to try and get my kids to slow down and let me take pictures of their reactions.  For me their reactions are the best part and what I look forward to on Christmas Day.

 She has been asking for a Zelda shirt FOREVER.  She was SO excited!

 So on our way to a wrestling tournament last weekend, I was telling Tim that my Aunt had sent us some genealogy for my grandmas side of the family.  We are traced back to Scotland 1750's.  He then told me he had always wanted to do one of those ancestry kits.  Score for me because I had already purchased him one!!!!

 Dad's in their natural habitat on Christmas morning!

 Mason finally warmed up to his new bed.  Thanks Santa!

Cale put together his new lego's!

We had a great Christmas!  I hope you had a great one too!