Bullock Family Blog

Well I'm sad to say the big day is over. I love this month. I love all the decorations everywhere, I love how we get to see family and friends and I love taking time to remember Christ and his birth, and I love getting Christmas cards in the mail. now it's all coming to an end. Bailee started to cry on Christmas night because she was sad it was all over, I had to just lay by her and agree.
on a plus note we had a great Christmas. the kids were so cute and excited about everything. I'm so happy to say the Christmas magic is still in the Bullock home. I'll be so sad when it's gone. I thought for sure this would be Bailee's last year, but as of now the Magic is still here.



Here's a few different Nativity activities. I'm so happy I've been able to get some more use out of our Halloween Shrek Donkey costume and Davis was very excited to wear it, I think he was kind-of confused thinking it was Halloween again.





Here's the kids in there Christmas eve Jammies. and here is a snowman that I'm not sure how got cut in half, or at least looks that way.


Here is the awesome Christmas set up. and next is Tyson playing on his awesome lego table. this is definitely one of my favorite Christmas purchases. someone told me about it 3 days before Christmas, it was such a rush to go and find it, but I'm so glad we did. I think it is a MUST if you are going to have legos. it even has drawers with nets so you can scoop all the legos into them when you are done playing.

I was so excited for Bailee to get her doll and matching out fits. I was worried because she's not as into dolls as she used to be. but I think the matching clothes brought her love back. later that day she told me "when I saw the doll at first, I was wondering why Santa brought me a doll when I already had one, but now that I have the matching clothes and I see how fun she is. and I love that I can wash her hair. I think Santa knew what I wanted more than I did, how does he do that?" MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!


Here's the boys in there sweat outfits from Grandma. I love that they are doing their 'word" pose as they like to call it. .



I have to end on with a funny Christmas story....
to preface, Ryan is usually a pretty good gift buyer. So last week I get a call from him asking me if we should buy this lap top that is on sell for a good deal (ours is on it's last leg) I tell him naa, I don't really care, if you want it you can go ahead and buy it.
so a couple of days later I ask him if he ended up getting it, he says no. Then he starts telling me how excited he is for my present to get here, and it's in the mail. I start thinking and say "you didn't get me that lap top did you, that would be like getting yourself a present and then writing my name on it? (thinking there's no way he got it for me.) so of course Christmas moring rolls around and what is the last gift under the tree???? a lap top that Ryan whips out and says "well I guess if you don't want this I"ll have it for myself? I was laughing so hard, I honestly didn't think he got it. so I'm hoping if I talk about this enough Ryan will realize when you buy a gift make sure it's what the other person wants and not what you want.
In his defense we are going on a VACATION the first of February, and I am so excited for it. and I think he thought we weren't doing presents this year because of the vacation.
and in my defense I would have been happy with a $30 track suit.
all in all it was a great Christmas vacation!!! like I said I'm sad to see it go. Goodbye Christmas, thanks for coming.

ok so I've finally decided to not be lazy and just go private. will you leave me your e-mail address if you want an invite. Thanks. Katie

Last weekend we had our annual friends Christmas party. I love these girls!!! we always have such a good time. and once again we were laughing until we about cried. good times!!! The theme of the party was based around the letter "F" friends, festivities, food and fun. it was darling. we all had to bring a white elephant that started with F. me and Ryan brought gold fish. and so did Brooks and Lindsey. (side note, we actually got gold fish last week at another white elephant party and were planning on regiving those but I couldn't do it. Bailee has taken such good care of hers and I know there the only pet she'll ever get, so I let her keep them and I forked out the .75 cents to get some new ones.

oh and look who I ran into on the road the other day. I think his reindeer were in the shop.

So I have been sick these last few days with the flu (don't worry I've been milking it for all I can) anyways my family was going to see the lights last night and it killed me that I couldn't go so my sweet mom and dad took them all along. they loved it. and this time it was actually a warm night so there were no tearsl

Last weekend we took the kids to "the Chick" (that's what you call it when you're a regular and the workers recognize you and know your kids by name) anyways we had an all you can eat breakfast and the cow was even there dressed up like santa. we all ate till we wanted to puke and called it a day.

Things I love about December...

seeing family that we love so much.


getting to visit Santa

Being silly

This year for Thanksgiving we decided to invite ourselves down to Ryan's sister's house in Denver. We had such a good time. She is such a fun host. She always makes us feel so welcome, and comes up with so many fun things for us and the kids to do. The kids can't stop talking about all the fun crafts they did. (I've really got to step up my game in the craft department)

Thanksgiving day was great. We all had a good laugh (or 2) in the cooking department. This is kind-of my first Thanksgiving with out a "mom" present (or at least an experienced mom)
let me start out by clarifying that the Turkey was excellent.
I was in charge of 3 dishes. all of which turned out a little "off" something was weird about each one. My sweet potatoes were drowning in butter, my green bean caserol was bland (Fyi I was the only one who tried it so who cares) and I have no idea where I went wrong in the fruit salad, think I got carried away with the marshmallows.
My favorite dish was what we liked to call mashed poravy. (as pictured below) you might think you are looking at mashed potatoes but nope it's just gravy. LOVED IT!!!!






Here are a few of the amazing crafts we made. we almost forgot them but luckily last minute cousin Dirk reminded us we needed to take ours home!!!


Bowling was one of my favorite things. I always forget how much fun we all have when we go!!!

I love these 2 pictures they really showcase what an experienced bowler I am.


Darling!!!






serious coaching going on.


I love when Bailee is around girl cousins. it's the only time she will let me braid her hair because she wants to be twins. Her and Livy played so cute together. Actually all the kids played so good together.

writing a Christmas list to santa, another great activity.... Tyson was cute, he wrote "I wish for santa to have a good time" I think he was trying to butter him up for more presents.


Davis started writing and then decided it's funner to pick his nose.



My kids had such a good time, they still haven't stopped talking about there cousins and would like to move in with them. Thanks for the awesome Vacation Linds and Chris!!!
ps black friday was also amazing but that is a post in it's self!!!