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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Christmas Day 2016

Chandler Christmas Morning

Brooklyn Christmas Morning

Kayden Christmas morning. 

I love my Baby Girl.

My handsome BOYS

A Christmas Kiss. 

Christmas antics Love these boys of mine.

Brooklyn Hero, her Daddy!

Oh that looks a little more like them.  

Beautiful Brooklyn

Jeremy opening his Stocking

Christmas Morning Breakfast
Cinnamon Rolls, Quiche

Brooklyn loving her present. 

Love my kids and all their fun wrapping. 

Brooklyn, got super creative with her wrapping.  That is a toy box.

Everyone needs a Pokemon Wallet. 


Thanks for the beautiful scarf Brooklyn. 

I love how excited Kayden still gets.
Even at age 17 we can still surprise him. 




This year for a big Christmas Present we opted to do a family vacation.
So Jermey and I came up with lots of clues and wrapped them up for each of the
kids to open trying to figure out where and when we are going.
It was alot of fun.  It was a lot of work but sooooo Fun. 

We had clues For President's Day That is when the Vacation will take place
Feb 16-20 

Each Country had clues and if the kids couldn't figure that out
We gave them a present with a better clue and a picture of the country's Flag.

The oldest Zoo in Europe.  Do you know what Country we are going too?

Brooklyn thinks she has it all figured out.  She thought we were going
to Ireland.  (I wish.  That destination is on my bucket list.)  Keep guessing Baby Girl!

Next Present, Next Country...

Here are the super cute clues we made for the kids.

The kids couldn't guess where we were going so onto the bigger clue.

Do you know what Country Flag this is??? 

Another gift, another Country. 

Oh goody another set of clues.

Nope couldn't figure it out so opening the bigger clue.

Chandler thought we were going to Finland.
NOPE!!!  Way too cold in February.  Ha

The last clue.

Becuase we gave the kids a trip they each got one little present.
Jeremy wanted to make it hard to unwrap.  So out came the duck tape.

Chandler working really hard to get his present open. 

Brooklyn, thought she had it easy.  Little does she know what her dad did.

Jermey was super nice and gave her scissors.  Brooklyn thought she was home free
when she opened the box and found a present still completely wrapped in duck tape.
She was not impressed and dropped the entire gift.  Jeremy and I were laughing soooo hard.


Jeremy got Kayden really well.  He zip tied over 40 zip ties.
Kayden's face was priceless.  


After several minutes of trying to get the off...  Jeremy gave Kayden some
scissors to help.  It still took forever to un thread them.  Jer, had weaved the zip ties together.
Did I mention it took Jeremy 45 minutes to apply said Zip Ties?  Ha!

Kayden thought he was home free once he was zip tie free.
Nope the entire present was Duck Taped.  Yep, we got his GOOD this year.



We are going to Budapest, Hungary, Bratislava, Slovakia, and Vienna, Austria
It's called The Imperial Cities Tour.  
We leave Thursday at 6:00pm travel all night and arrive in Budapest at 7am  eat breakfast and take a city tour
Stay the night in Budapest.
Next morning after breakfast drive to Bratislava for a city tour and lunch.
Travel to Vienna that night and stay there for 2 nights.  It's going to be so much fun.  
We all can't wait.  Best Christmas Present EVER!!!!

We had Christmas Dinner with the Ambrus's.
Here we are setting up appetizers. 

Here is our Ham Dinner with all the trimmings. 

Our delicious pies.  Brooklyn made the pie crust all by herself.  I was so proud of her.  She did it perfect.
She also decorated the pie crust with fun Christmas sprinkles
so the little Gingerbread men looked so cute.  Jeremy made his French silk pie and I joined Brooklyn in decorating the Christmas Trees.  So much fun cooking with my girl and it tastes pretty amazing too!!!!
YUMMMY

This is the only group shot we got.  Boo!

Rachel, Les, Jer, and Tina

One of my Besties Rachel.  She lives 500 steps from my house.
Yep we have counted.  

These two are the best of friends.
Our house is never dull with these two amazing Teenagers.
I heart them.

Handsome Kayden, I can't believe you are 17. 

Our Baby is not a baby any more.  Our sweet Chandler is 11.


My favorite person.  I love this MAN of mine.

Brooklyn scored when she picked this Hoody up for her dad.
When he opened it Kayden got all bent out of shape and wanted to know
Why Dad got such a cool hoody.  

Little did he know Brooklyn got him one too.  So spoiled.
We really did have one amazing, wonderful, Happy Christmas.
We sure hope each and everyone of you had a Wonderful Christmas.
We love and miss you all.  Bastian's in Germany.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Christmas Eve with Kindsman's

We got to Celebrate Christmas Eve with one of our favorite families The Kindsman's.  It's fun sharing our traditions with our friends.

Tina and Sarah!
Best Friends. 

Dennis, Sarah, Tina, and Jeremy
We sure love these guys. 
Emily, Chandler and his bestie Denny. 


We got to play lots of games.  Here we are playing ticket to ride.

Jacob and Ben paying with legos and Skylanders. 




Here are our place setting.  So cute!

Getting ready to read The Christmas Scripture Story.
Chandler, Denny, Jacob, Emily (on the back row.)
Ben in the middle
Kayden and Brooklyn in front.  WE sure love all these kids. 


Kayden was trying to steal Jeremy seat. It was hilarious. 

Chandler opening up his Christmas Jammies

Brooklyn's Christmas Jammies. 

Kayden's Christmas Jammies. 

Tina's Christmas Jammies.

Jeremy's Christmas Jammies

The Bastian's Dog Pile.
I absolutely love this family of mine. 

Christmas Program

Brooklyn & Ben

So Grateful for this time of year where we get to celebrate Christ Birth.

Ben and Chandler singing carols. 

I love this picture of Emily and Sarah.  

Kindsan's Dog Pile. 

Denny, Jacob, Sarah, Dennis, Ben, and Emily

Jeremy and Dennis.  Getting ready to hand out Christmas Eve Jammies.

Best Friends. 

This is how you win at Settlers. 

Bastianclan December 2016

Kindsman's December 2016

Here is the LOVE of my life.  So blessed to have this man in my life.