- Dominque, age 15 - purple digital camera with rotating window to see herself when taking self-portraits, and a matching purple hard case. She is a freshman at Smyrna High School and is on the softball team so I know she will get TONS of use out of this gift. She absolutely loved it when she opened it yesterday! This camera also has buttons that when pushed automatically post your pictures to your Facebook and/or Twitter pages and your videos to YouTube.
- Wesley, age 9 & CJ, age 11 - Razor Sole Skates and $25 Walmart gift cards. These two boys are difficult to buy for because they're at that in-between age where they're no longer playing with action figures, but they're not quite out of the video gaming phase. Better to let them pick out their own video game than to embarass them by buying something too babyish. Both of the boys loved the skates and the gift cards. Oh, to be at an age where a $25 gift card feels like $100!
- Austin, almost 7 & Marshall, almost 5 - We bought the boys joint gifts this year because everything Austin does, Marshall wants to do too. Both boys are very athletic and play football and baseball in the spring and fall, so we decided to capitalize on their love of sports and got them an over-the-door double basketball goal and an arcade-style football game (like you'd see at Chuck E Cheese). These were perfect gifts because they have recently decided that they want to sleep in the same room again and use the other bedroom as their play/game room. I see them getting an air hockey table for their birthdays...
(Not the exact one, but you get the picture)
- Zavier, age 2 - I picked out the outdoor grill playset that goes with the indoor kitchen playset because this boy loves that kitchen! He was a big helper when I was putting it together for him, putting the burners into the screw holes and loading up the cupboards with all of the pieces to assemble it, but he sure loved it when it was put together! He was all about some hotdogs and ketchup and opening and shutting the grill lid. Lots of hours will be spent using this toy.
- DJ, age 4 - A LeapFrog Tag reading system. Even though DJ was initially more excited about Zavier's grill playset, once Megan got the Tag book downloaded to the pen and she showed him how to use it he loved it! He quickly learned that a certain sound means "turn the page" and that if you put the pen to parts of the book that it will tell him special things. After Zavier had gone down for his nap, DJ even picked the book up and began reading by himself!
Kasha, almost 12 - Since I rarely see Kasha (she lives in Oregon), I'm always struggling to know what to gift her with on her birthday and Christmas. This year I learned that she is really enjoying art and that she draws really well. My original plan was to get her an art kit and a gift card to Michael's so she could choose her own art supplies, but I waited too long to buy the art kit and ended up only sending a gift card so as to *hopefully* make it on time for Christmas.
I also attempted to make a cake that I pinned on Pinterest (you can follow me HERE) but it went to crap. I over cooked the cakes and I over beat the ganache, resulting in sweet tasting cottage cheese. Fail. I'll try it again sometime; it's not quite ready for the move to my "I Made It! And the reviews to go with it" board. So instead I just made cracker candy and sausage bread and they were both delicious! We went to the Elder Spann's house around 10:30AM so we could spend some time with them before the kiddos arrived, we had lunch with the family, watched the kids open their presents and play with them and then we went home around 4:30 without playing Dirty Santa because I left our gifts at home. Whomp, whomp. It was a good day, not without some drama, but overall a good day!
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