Surprise!

Tomorrow morning is officially our "Christmas morning" with the kiddos. Since we're leaving for Texas soon and obviously will not be hauling gifts with us, we get to open presents tomorrow! yippee!!
That is, unless you're me.
And by that I mean that I got my Christmas present from Brandon yesterday. You see, Brandon is absolutely terrible when it comes to surprises. No, he's good with GETTING the surprise...just not KEEPING the surprise. So once he buys me a gift, it literally tortures every ounce of his being to keep it secret from me. Which often times works in my advantage. However, I'm big into surprises and the idea of waiting until Christmas morning to open all of our gifts...but I can't think of a Christmas that we've actually waited to give each other our presents because he just absolutely can't stand to wait. It's a good thing he doesn't do his Christmas shopping early because then he'd be hard pressed to even wait until Dec. 1st to give away Christmas gifts. You can imagine how awful it is for him to see the stack of wrapped gifts under the tree waiting for the kids to open them. For two weeks now he's been asking if they could just go ahead and rip into them. sheeeeesh. what a cheater.
Anyways. Back to my point.
I got my Christmas present yesterday! And even though it didn't come exactly when I was expecting it, it was still very much a surprise!

So up until yesterday I've taken all of our photos with this:


But I mentioned to him awhile back that it might be nice to have a tiny point and shoot camera to keep in my purse or diaper bag for those occasions when we're out, haven't lugged along the DSLR camera, and want a picture of the kids. (or when we're on the slopes over the Christmas break! woohoo!)
So he got me this:


I thought it was a really cool gift and props to him for paying attention when I've dropped hints. :) Even though my pride takes a hit when I think of taking a picture of my kids with the point and shoot instead of my SLR, at least we'll be able to still capture those moments! And really, for a point and shoot, it takes pretty good photos! see?


but what camera could make those handsome boys look bad?!

So then he complemented my skillz and said, "oh...uh...I was gonna get you a case for it, but...then I thought you could just make one."
So, being spurred on by his confidence in me, I came up with this:


I'm realizing now that I could have fancied it up a bit more, added some more colors or bling to it, and made it look nice and fun. But maybe next time!

So way to go Brandon on a thoughtful, useful, and cool Christmas gift!