christmas extravaganza!

christmas is always one of my favorite times of the year! (except for the cold and snow!) my sister brittney and her family were in town so we spent a lot of time with them. we started off our christmas celebration early this year. typically we have breakfast christmas morning at my grandma and grandpa jensen's house but since they would be in florida this year we ended up having the whole shebang a week and a half before christmas.

then the saturday before christmas we met my family downtown to eat at tucanos. it was so yummy!

this picture my dad took makes me laugh

that night we went to trudy's family christmas party but i don't have any pictures so you will just have to imagine us there! haha

christmas eve eve has always been a celebration growing up in my family. we exchange sibling gifts and back in the day we would sleep down by the christams tree. well, since we are all grown up now we don't sleep by the tree anymore but we still eat dinner, open gifts and hang out! this year my dad mom and nat helped drew make a gingerbread train and house while me and britt did some crafts and our hubbies watched some tv and hung out.

christmas eve was not so good... first of all tony had to work... bummer. but to top it off i had some sort of stomach flu or something! i was up the whole night before sitting on the toilet... plus i couldn't stand the sight of any sort of food... it made me want to puke! but anyways that night my brother was skyping us from russia so i rested all day so we could at least make it to my parents house to say hi!

christmas day i was feeling much better which is good because we had our families to go visit! here is what our day looked like:

christmas morning! tony got a lot of sports and entertainment memorabilia and i got a new pink ipod and lots of clothes and shoes. 

breakfast at ihop with tom and trudy

we found this gag gift box at fye for a pet petter. the box was hilarious, we were dying of laughter when we read it and so we couldn't pass it up. it was talking about how filthy your pets are and how with this device you will never have to touch your pet again, and it goes up to like 85 ppm (pets per minute) and some bogus product reviews! haha so we decided to put candy inside and let trudy open it. it was so much fun to watch! she got kinda of sad because she still wants to pet her kitty! haha sorry trudy but we couldn't resist! :)

opening gifts at my parents. we got drew a sweet remote control car

trying out tony's new golf glasses... haha

dinner with my grandma and grandpa loosle

opening gifts at tony's grandma fitzgerald's house

and in case you were wondering... the dogs had a great christmas too! they love ripping open presents. luna even came over a few times with a wrapped toy as if to ask "can i open this one now??" haha king was just happy to have more toys to chew on!

we found these cute santa hats for the pups that i couldn't pass up! too bad they wouldn't sit still with them on long enough for me to get a shot of them both... but don't they look so cute?!

hope you all had a wonderful christmas too and have a happy new year!

happy happy birthday tony dear!

(can you tell i'm in primary?? haha) first of all i can't believe another year has almost come and gone! with tony's last birthday it also marked our 5 year anniversary of when we first met! crazy how time flies!

so this year, just like any other year, i tried to celebrate tony's birthday all week long! well it worked out nice because i had bought tony a groupon which i later discovered expired about 5 days before his birthday... so the wednesday before, we got in the car and i told tony to drive.

when we finally made it to our destination i handed him his groupon for a month membership and a 30 min golf lesson at black clover! basically its an indoor golf facility where he can go for an hour a day and just hit balls! plus its literally 2 min away from his work so i know where he will be going after work for the next month... haha

then that weekend we ordered in some pizza hut (the big box deal where you get a pizza bread sticks and cinnastix... yummy!!)

and we also took the pups to my parents house to run and play!

check out the picture tony got of king jumping to get the leaves from my dad! sweet!

on sunday night (birthday eve)

we cooked up some beer brauts and burgers. tony had been wanting some for a while so it was perfect!

and although the original plan was to stay up to celebrate at midnight we ended up going to bed around 11:30 that night. but i made sure to wake him up at midnight so i could still be the first one to wish him happy birthday! :)

on his birthday we were both planning on being home from work around 2:30 to go shopping or whatever else he wanted to do. well i came home at lunch to feed the pups only to discover that king had a... very stinky and disgusting accident in the cage... not to mention both pups were laying in this mess... well i end up just staying home from work and cleaning up our house and the pups for the next couple of hours before tony got home.

when tony got home he opened his gifts. himalayan salt rocks that he can heat up for his tired feet after work and a comfy steelers blanket. 

and then later that night went to dinner with tom and trudy at famous daves. yummy!!

then after dinner we went over to dick's so tony could find him some new irons before his month membership to black clover started. after hitting balls for a half hour he finally decided that he wanted the nike vrs irons and ended up buying them a few days later at uinta golf.

then the next day we headed out to the nike outlet where he bought these sweet shoes

and some shirts and a hat.

later in the week tonys final gift finally showed up in the mail. i was so upset because i knew that tony had wanted a remote control car for a while and when i saw one for a good deal i ordered it online. well... literally 2 hours later tony calls me on his way home from work to say he had just bought one! i tried to convince him to wait to use it until his birthday but he wanted to try it out now! haha so now he has 2 cars to tease the pups with.

then on saturday my parents took us to fugi. we had never been but i would recommend it! it was a good price, good food, plus you get a free show from the hibachi guy! haha

then on wednesday we went to dinner with sue, ray, tony's grandma fitz and alex to red lobster. yummy as always!

happy birthday again bear! you are the bestest hubby and friend anyone could ever dream of!
i love you!