Gabrielle Staffs...

As Im sure everyone knows, the girls and Grandma are obsessed with Xena! Grandma made a Gabrielle staff a long time ago with Lynn, and the girls have been begging her to make one with them. So Grandma went out and bought the stuff for them to make it, and came over early one morning and made them with Makayla, Haylee, Payten and Aaron. :] They had a blast!! 

Kaylas Birthday with Grandpa and Nana :]

The weekend after Makayla's Birthday we went over to Grandpa and Nana's to celebrate with them. They baked Makayla a very cute and delicious cake, took us out to Pizza Hut for dinner and bought Makayla a really cute jacket. However, the jacket was a little snug, so they returned it and gave her a gift card to Boot Barn. The pizza and pasta from Pizza Hut were delicious and so was the cake! We also watched Madagascar 2 (Grandpa got it off of the internet) and played Skip Bo! It was a great way to celebrate! 

Makayla's Bday - I know, im a lil late.

Okay, so I am a little behind on times. IM SORRY!!! December was just a busy, busy month for me. Finals, term papers, Christmas shopping, Christmas itself! AHHHH. I even had to give up my Journal Your Christmas because of all the hustle and bustle! Anyways, Makayla's birthday was definitely ALL about her!! My mom, dad, Haylee and I (and all the pups) woke her up on her birthday morning! I had went out and bought her balloons and a horse stuffed animal (she said she wanted a horse for her birthday, the stuffed horse was the best we could do ;)) When she woke up, I tried to make pancakes.... but that didn't work so well. We had cereal instead. HAHA

After we ate and got ready, we headed out to Miss. Deborah's (the girls horse trainer) for Makayla and Haylee to do their horse lessons. Makayla chose to do horse lessons that day as one of her birthday presents, hehe. After lessons, we headed back home. Grandma Gilba came over, and Makayla opened her present from Grandma. She got some reallly cute black furry boots. 

After relaxing for a little bit, we headed out to Elsinore to meet Grandma Cathy for dinner at Lone Star Restaurant. Lone Star is a western themed Steak House and when the lights flicker in the restaurant the whole staff begins to do a two step type dance to a country song. Its totally fun and a crack up!! Makayla opened her gifts at Lone Star. She got the Kanye West CD, a cowgirl hat, a lead rope for a horse, a video game, a beanie, a poster of Jacob, makeup, and some hair stuff. I'd say she made out pretty well!  

So all in all, she had a great birthday! Happy 13th Birthday Makayla!! 

Santa Pictures

Last night, Bryan and I took Boston to have his pictures taken with Santa! (It was Santa & Pet Night). He loved being out of the house, and getting so much attention!!! :] And he ate a yummy 

panda express dinner with us too!! :] Lucky boy! 

a few more of my christmas projects

A few more Christmas Projects I have been working on ... are these cute little photo albums. They are being sent to the Marshall Uncle's, Grandma Gilba, and Grandpa Frank. They were only a buck, and were originally Hannah Montana - I just took the front insert out, and made new ones! :]

I personally think they came out adorable! :]

One of my Christmas Projects :]

I have been working on a few Holiday Craft Projects this last month. I have recently finished a small photo album I have been working on for my friend Erika :] Here are some of the pics! (Front cover and the inserts for each section!) Enjoy. 

Personal Photo Album

Its been a while since I have worked on my personal book - since I have been busy making some Christmas Albums for Christmas gifts. Here are a few pictures to see how my Album is coming along - there's a few of my favorites. (Im not sure why the other ones are rotated... sorry). 

The first two are from when we went to Musink in February, the following two are from last years Christmas, Halloween last year, my moms birthday last year, my senior pictures, and pictures of bryan and I :] Enjoyyy! 

Thanksgiving :]

Hey everyone! :]

The Marshall Family spent our Thanksgiving with our Grandma Gilba and Grandma Cathy - eating the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. Bryan decided to spend his Holiday with his family. We spend the day eating, playing board games, and telling stories! It was a great way to spend our Thanksgiving - we definitely have many things to be thankful for, our families being the main thing! :]

Best Buy and WalMart didn't have many great sales - not worth staying the night - so we decided no to go camp out anywhere. We stayed nice and cozy in our beds! HEHE.

We had plans to go to Nate and Jodie's today, but my mom ended up waking up being extremely sick. When she woke up from her nap this afternoon, she felt a little better - and we went to a few local stores to get some Christmas presents on sale! 

Anyways, our Thanksgiving was great! Besides my mom being sick :[ 

Love you guys! 

Happy Birthday Tina!

This past weekend, the 23rd, was Bryan's moms birthday, Tina. We went over on Sunday afternoon to spend the day with her. We got her the new Rachel Ray's Big Orange Book, and a Gold Canyon Candle. We went out to dinner to Chilli's, just Bryan, me, Tina and Ronnie. Of course, Bryan told the waitress it was her birthday, and then sang to her and gave her a chocolate shake! :] After dinner, we stopped over at Michael's, cause we both had coupons! :] I bought my Christmas cards and a few other things for some Christmas gifts I'm doing. After Michaels, we went back to their houe for some cake (I made it !) and then headed home after watching some TV with them. It was a very nice day, and a great way to celebrate her birthday! :]

More puppies !

Our puppies are sooooo spoiled, its ridiculous! We spend our days caring for them, and playing with them! HAHA. On Sunday, we just couldn't help ourselves - we had to go on a picture taking rampage of them. Im in the process of making a dog album for the family - so the rampages help with more pages! HEHE. 

Twilight Premiere!

Twilight was fantastic!!!!!! We bought our tickets 3 days in advance, and waited in line for 3 1/2 hours for the movie to start. Luckily, the manager at the theater was extremely nice and understanding of the cold weather - so they let us in about 2 hours earlier then they were supposed to. They originally had 3 different screens playing Twilight at the midnight showing, but had to open up a 4th screen because of the amount of people that showed up. This was just in Hemet - a very SMALL town. The theater in Temecula, at the mall, had 12 out of 17 screens showing Twilight! INSANE!!!! Waiting was soooo worth it though. Everyone who hasn't seen it, needs to see it ASAP!