Think Out Loud #25 ~ What About the Christmas Queen? Hmm?

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Every year, my dad, sister, niece, mother-in-law, and grandmother-in-law come over to our house early Christmas morning and watch the kids open their presents. My in-laws make a breakfast casserole, and we make cinnamon rolls (well when I say "make," I really mean we roll out the Pillsbury dough, lol). We give our presents to them to open when they come over, too. 

Well, first thing's first. Here's the Christmas aftermath. Yikes!! 

My sister's opening up her daughter's toys. :D

"Here he comes a prowlin'

Lean and hungry..." 

Who Dey!

Jack loves his Bengals uniform. Who Dey!

Janie got some new games for her new 

Nintendo 3DS. And she lurves them. :D

The Christmas Queen, lol 

(Remember Lucy from the Charlie Brown Christmas episode?)

My niecey pie! <3

My husband seems a bit jealous of our son's Darth Vader, lol. 

My dad's opening his super awesome Elvis blanket! :D

One of my presents from Santa was a record of No Doubt's album Tragic Kingdom. It was so cool that the record is orange and to hear my favorite No Doubt album on my record player! :D

How was your Christmas or the holiday you celebrate? :D

Feature & Follow Friday #34 ~ The New & Unusual

I'm so excited to join Feature & Follow Friday!! This is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read where they each feature a blogger with an interview and also have a question or activity for all bloggers to participate in answering. Please click the links above to follow the hosting bloggers and the featured bloggers and enter the link to your own post in the linky. Hop around to as many blogs as you can - find new blogs to follow and gain some new followers as well. Mingle and make some new blogger friends! :D

I would be so happy and ever so grateful if you'd follow me any way you'd like but especially by Bloglovin' or email (to the left) and Twitter. Thank you! <3

 Q: Tell us at least one new or unusual thing you've done in 2013.

1. I got new glasses! 

2. I went to Austin City Limits! 

3. Because of ACL, I'm now obsessively in love with Passion Pit! 

4. We took the kids to their first Bengals game!

Nothing so unusual - I'd say more like new! How about you? :D