We had more fun in December (and busy-ness) with Owen and Savannah's birthdays. We did cake and presents the night before Owen's birthday, since Alex and Weston headed on their camping trip on Owen's birthday. The trick candles were fun on the cake. We did do birthday breakfast on Monday morning before Savannah left for school and the boys left for camping. Owen wanted hashbrown waffles, so that was a new thing to try out. They didn't turn out bad, but I'm not sure I love eating potatoes with Chick-Fil-A sauce for breakfast. Owen had BB practice in the afternoon, but we did get to eat pizza and watch Wicked in the movie theater the evening of his birthday. A few of our friends happened to be there at the movie too. We will probably do a friend party sometime in January to celebrate his sweet sixteen.
Savannah turned 12 this year! We had pancakes, bacon, eggs, and strawberry smoothies for breakfast. She had to go to school on her birthday, but I dropped off Wendy's for her lunch. She got invited to a friend pizza and movie night that happened to be on her birthday, so she decided to go to that instead of hanging out with family. We went out to eat the next night.
She got some make up for her birthday, Owen's old phone, and Alex bought a Durham sweatshirt for her on his recent trip to Scotland. She was pretty excited about that. She got a special gift this year - a Bear Bear book, with 10 years of photos with her pink stuffed bear that she's had since she was a baby. That was one of my projects for November. It turned out pretty cute, but the page describing the book actually made me get a little emotional. She's had that bear since day one, and it's gone so many places with her. Although she still sleeps with it, she doesn't cart it around anymore. It's sort of the end of a season for her - goodbye to childhood and hello to pre-teen / teenager!
Here's the last page, which I think is pretty cute!
The first page, explaining the book:
Some others - hard to choose just a few - I love them all!
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