birthday-christmas eve & morning

thanks so much to those who gave birthday greetings!

24, my number ;)

my birthday was spent last minute christmas shopping, gift preparing, watched football, christmas movies, ate tons & stayed home with my family...

binh surprised me with an organic blueberry blue velvet cake!!! so so good.

my mom's cooking. my favorite!

after dinner, we got ready for midnight mass.

& we open our presents after.

so when belle came home, she was greeted and surprised with a kitchen waiting by the tree!

SOOO HAPPY she loves it cause binh & i have been slaving away 2 days before, rushing, making this for belle! it was quite the adventure.....& it deserves it's own post!

but i kinda made a mistake putting it there first cause right when belle saw the kitchen, she forgot about her other gifts. she started cooking asap!

we had to interrupt her cooking to open other gifts...

i made her a superhero cape but aris wanted to try it on! haha

we went to bed at 4am. we were so tired, so drained...but happy!

we all woke up late. & i made my favorite breakfast, that i rarely ever eat, pancakes!

christmas day... every year we usually stay home in our pjs & bum out at home, watch movies, in this case, we watched a ton of basketball.

& belle played with her new toys! the cast of toy story 3 escaping from sunny side daycare.

i didn't know hello kitty was part of the cast??

when i was cleaning the table, i found the octopus character "hiding" with the ornaments.

i love christmas. really is the best time of the year! for so many reasons. belle gets so into the christmas spirit...even knowing a bit about it, telling me that it's Jesus' birthday. her favorite holiday song is coincidentally, "jingle bells!" ....& this is the only time i ever buy her toys. so she is one happy little lady. i hope every one had a blessed & happy christmas!!