More Fun at Ibu's

A few sweet pictures from our visit with Ibu today

Happy Birthday Ibu

Poor hubby having the two women in his life having birthdays so close together. Today was Ibu's 50th birthday! It seems Ibu and I have some weird karma worked out between us. She woke up sick on my birthday and I woke up sick on hers. Both allergies and migraines though luckily both became more manageable for me after sleeping in and taking it easy. So at 7:30pm I was back to functioning and able to go over to Ibu's apartment with the kids and hubby.

We got her flowers, coffee, albums with pictures, heatpad, and hubby got her a fandango card so they can have a mother-son date when she gets back to the states after the holidays (she's headed back to Indo for Christmas). We also got a cookie cake and cheesecake assortment. I hope we made her birthday memorable and fun. She said we did good and of course the kids loved celebrating one of their Grandmas and another excuse for cake. :)

Here's a pic of the gorgeous flowers hubby picked out for his mom, unfortunately only had my point and shoot camera today so the pic doesn't do them justice

Blowing out the candles

Thank you Ibu!

Today Ibu (my MIL) came over and we got to celebrate my birthday a little with her as well. And she went overboard (as well :P) and got me the awesome new gift I never expected of a Kindle! I am so excited to play with this and it's much easier to carry around the house than a laptop or all the books it will hold. The kids have already read some of their own books on it too. I'm noting this here because I'm hoping I'll be able to update the blog from it as well so bear with me on any future auto-correct mistakes on here because of it.

Ibu also got me bath goodies, chocolate, and a GT snuggie so thanks to her and her amazing son/my awesome husband I am now even more spoiled lol.

Thank you so much Ibu for everything!

And of course I can never thank you enough but I have to add in addition to thanking you for these gifts, thanks for the even bigger surprise gift of your presence and comfort at K's birth :) (I have the birth story written up and will upload here soon too I promise :) ).

Happy bday MIL and Christmas Trees

Today was MIL's birthday and we celebrated with her by going to a Christmas tree lot to get our first real full size tree. Before this year we had a ceramic tree, a mini fake one, and a couple branches tied together and glued on a wooden base (all which we put high out of reach of the kids) but this year we have the room and got a real one which is gorgeous and smells wonderful. I can't wait to decorate tomorrow, though it won't get all it's ornaments for another couple weeks as we gradually make them in various ways.

MIL went a little Christmas crazy at the tree lot. We got wreaths, garlands, and trees. It should all come together nicely in our holiday decor for sure. It was freezing (C was actually snuggling into the tree at one point to keep warmth) but we still had a lot of fun and I'm glad we got to all go together.

After getting the trees we went to eat and had an amazing meal at Longhorn. Dinner at restaurants is always amusing with my MIL since she used to be a waitress and manager at an Applebees and feels she has an unspoken understanding with the waiter or waitress we get. Add this in with the spoken bond she develops as the meal progresses, the general amusements of dining with toddlers (though the kids were very well behaved thankfully), and a reason to celebrate and you have quite an amusing meal.

After dinner we made a huge target run which was originally supposed to just be for lights. The car was packed with kids, various Christmas greenery, and all sorts of goodies when we left.

We now have the tree up in the living room. C did decide to take it on herself to begin decorating. She put her Minny Mouse doll's bow on one of the branches lol. She kept getting up from bed earlier saying "Mommy I've got to tell you something!....Look at the beautiful tree!" It was cute. The Baker family is definitely getting in the holiday spirit.

I also made 3 ornaments today here's a pic of a couple of them, along with a pic of the kids and the tree.

And here's the link for the heart video (the circle I just made combining a few different site suggestions and stitches I've learned)

C and J were kind of moving into the tree for this but still cute lol. They love the tree!