First Annual Shopping Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. Some of you may recall that last year on my birthday, I told Jeff that this year I wanted to start a tradition of getting all the Christmas shopping done on my birthday. Some how after we got married, I got the job of shopping for all gifts for everyone in our lives. I end up stressing out trying to get it all done. Since I know he hates shopping, the only way I could get him to agree is to link it to my birthday.

Yesterday, Carson had his Halloween party at school and Macie was not in school. We decided Jeff would take today off to go shopping. (I actually ended up taking Macie to the doctor yesterday too. She has croup and a sinus infection.) We had to cut our trip a little short because Connor is sick. Mitzi was keeping the kids after school and we did not want them around Connor. But, we were able to get almost all of Jeff's family gifts ready. I can now wrap them and be ready to take them with us at Thanksgiving. We also got all the birthday gifts for my family that fall between now and Christmas. I still have to get the rest of my family and the kids and Jeff. But, we made a giant dent in it. (And Jeff has now been napping for about an hour!)Hopefully, I can enjoy looking for the rest of the things. And, hopefully Carson will have a list before the stores gets too crazy.

My birthday was nice. The day started with Cole and Connor singing Happy Birthday before school.

After dinner we had a cookie cake. This was my request, but it is the first year Jeff did not actually make me a cake.

Of course the kids enjoyed the cookie too.

I don't know what Macie is thinking here, but it is a look we see more often than we would like!

I need to post party pictures, but Macie is now awake!