Love Love Love Love her, Happy Birthday B!

Happy Birthday Breezer! Baby Sister and BFF Breezer Bean turned 22 and we CELEbrated! Maga of course decorated with streamers and balloons and signs all around her bedroom door. We breakfasted on Birthday Breakfast of pumpkin and custard pie. At our house, we'll stick a candle in anything and sing birthday songs! Our friend Neilio was visiting for the week and so they went shooting at the range with Mr B and the Imbachs, she has the bruise on her shoulder from the shottie. We had dinner at the Roy's in LA before being hosted as guests of our Amazing Magical Friends, Andrew and Maria at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. We saw some wonderful performances and Breeze was a part of all three shows! I'm so easily entertained and amazed and have zero interest in being skeptical so I'm a good audience at magic show. We spent some time listening to Invisible Irma who is the private victorian era castle's only current resident. She can play just about ANY song requested if you ask nicely. We heard Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Elton John's Rocket Man, Styx's Come Sail Away, a little Katy Perry, Bob Marley and even some Mele Kalikimaka! We had a great time celebrating such an incredible woman. She is bright and canny, kind and witty, sarcastically hilarious and bursting to the seams with love and talent. Happy Birthday Breezer, we love you as much as you think we do and more.

AGA Holiday Show 2010

AGA Holiday Show 2010Both Bugs enjoy gymnastics at the American Gymnastics Academy in Signal Hill.

Last weekend they both performed in the Holiday Show at AGA. JT's Mighty Tumblers group did a routine to "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" and HeaBug's Mini Tumblers did a little obstacle course where she demonstrated back bends, forward rolls, backward rolls, jumping into hula hoops and over "french fries". They both did a great job and we had fun at a family date at Jamba Juice when they were all through!

They enjoy going to classes once a week and have felt really welcomed by the staff/coaches at AGA!

Winter Ball

Breeze was in charge of decorating for her YSA Lakewood First Ward Winter Ball. Thankfully, she knew a guy. haha. It was beautiful. I love that she has vision and I love that we have the capability of turning that to reality.

Older and Wiser... maybe just older.

The day before my birthday, my MIL treated JT and I to an afternoon at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens! After church he and I headed up by ourselves and met Gramma K then enjoyed strolling around the beautiful and sprawling grounds. At one point, I got "Lost" while they ventured to find a bathroom and standing in the center of the vast herb garden I enjoyed a few minutes of complete silence! Happy Birthday to me!

After it started to rain, we headed back to the car and waved goodbye to all the amazing Yellow trees that dot San Marino. As soon as we got home, I was treated to cards and gifts (including cowboy boots! and some great cookbooks, and charms for my BoothKids bracelet) and then we were off to a "surprise location" for dinner. Claim Jumper was definitely awesome with my parents, both my sisters and my little B and Imbach Fams. I was far too stuffed to order my own dessert so I "sampled" everyone elses. haha.

The next day brought lunch with my sister and girlfriend and so many messages on Facebook that a girl couldn't help but start to blush. I felt very celebrated and loved, it was overwhelming. Because my wonderful friend and fellow blogger Mrs. Frost had such a great idea of sharing those messages for her birthday, I'm following her example:  

Cynthia Dier: Hope you had a fabulous birthday surrounded by people who love you!!
 

Azineth Briones: Happy Birthday!!

• Jerrina Imbach: happy birthday krys. you are by far the most beautifully positive woman, wife, mother and friend i know. thank you for you influence.
   

  Robert Booth: Happy birthday babe I love you so much!!
   

  Nate Hicks:Happy Birthday, old-but-not-old friend! I hope it's wonderful : )
• Kryssie Booth:Feeling very loved, blessed and um, pretty... due to all the amazing wishes sent my way. Thank you for your sweet words, as an official grown woman I'd like to share just how... Super crazy cool and totally wicked awesome you've made me fee! Been blushing all day ♥ thanks guys! 

  Ulu N Mia Tui: happy birthday Kryssie! wishing you the best on your special day:) 

  Ronald Ah Kiong: Happy Birthday my Tree House buddy!! Those were the days...
  Helaman Taaga: Happy birfday crissie lol I totally forgot that u had da same birfday with my sister lol but anyways happy birfday ( :

  Crystalee Webb Beck

  hope your birthday's as wonderful as you are, Kryssie. You're beautiful. I'll never forget singing Aladdin songs with you when we were little girls. You were one of my first role models.

  Neil Riddoch

  Happy Birthday!

  Darien Naomi Kamae

  Happy Birthday:) I hope your birthday was nothing short of amazing : )

  Elizabeth Anderson

  happy birthday kryssie!!! miss you and the fam!! ♥

  Jada Crofts

  Happy birthday hottie! Hope you have so much fun!

  Cyndi Kelley

  Happy Birthday Pretty Lady♥

  Phatboi Aiono

  HAPPy BiRTHDAy BUDDy : )

  Leann Murphy Cuenca

  Happy Birthday Kryssie! I hope you are having a wonderful day!!

  Shaun Gabe Johnson

  Happy Birthday Cousin!

  Juliet Mckim

  HAPPY b-day to u...Enjoy ur day....

  Katie Booth

  Happy Birthday! : )

  Heather Gordon

  Happy Happy!!!

  Adriana Schlarb

  Happy Birthday darling ♥ You know we love you!!!!!

  Beau James Thompson

  yo happy bday! shoutout from utah : )

  Shirley Lowery

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU MY DEAR, MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS AND FOREVER

  Amber Scott

  Happy Birthday Beautiful Sister-in-Law! Hope you have a wonderful day!

  Jenna Cox

  Happy Birthday Mrs. "B"eautiful Lady! Enjoy your day w/ your blessings! Luvya!

  Greg Vogel

  Happy Birthday, you gorgeous thing!!

  Kainoa Brandow

  happy happy birthday from all of me to you! I wish it was my birthday so i could party too! hey hey :) may ur special day of so many throughout the year be a blessed one love you bunches!

  Christina Cable Martinez

  Feliz Cumpleaños, Frhlicher Geburtstag, Gratulerer med dagen, Manuia Lou aso fanau, Tanjobi omedeto, Saengilul ch'ukhamhamnida, and a VERY EXTREMELY, TERRIFIC, WONDERFUL, EXCEPTIONALLY Happy Birthday to you!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ 

  Jerome Taaga

  hakuna matata ;D

  Brianna Aiau Mabry

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Have a wonderful day, you deserve it! Love you! ♥

  Brina Kamae

  What day is today? It's Krys's birthday! What a day for a birthday... Let's all have some cake! And you smell like one too hahaaa!'

  Joanna Palagonia

  Happy Happy B day to you Lady!!!! Now go get spoiled!!!! ; )

  Andrew Malave

  Hope you have a Wonderful day...Happy Birthday terrific lady!!

  Samia Taylor

  Happy Birthday BEAUTIFUL LADY!!!!
  Hope you have an absolutely wonderful day! Know that you are loved by many many people. : )

  Heidi K. Brandow

  Happy Birthday Cousin! Hope this year is filled with all kinds of awesomeness. X's and O's!

  Chia Lehua Kamae

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRETTY LADY! Have a great day ... let them SPOIL YOU BIG TIME! May your have many many more!

  Rebekeh Kamae

  Happy Happy Birthday!!!! Hope it is a GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT day!!!

  Liz Kamae

  I want to be the first to officially wish my girl a super, duper, terrifical, outstanding, incredible, wonderful birthday. Those are just a few of the hundreds of words to describe you! Happy Birthday, Kryssie Krys!

   Then of course... here was my icing on the cake!

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We're going on a tree hunt...

For the last few years, we've hunted for our tree at the Snowy Pines Christmas Tree lot. This year Heabug and JT enjoyed running up and down the aisles and hiding in the super tall trees. We sipped (very) hot chocolate, got candy canes from Santa, listened to live music and rode the train.

This is the stuff memories are made of. We always have a great time!

B's are AWESOME!!

We heart us some Yo Gabba Gabba in the B household. In June I found out there was going to be a "Party in My City" and I swooped up some tickets. I tried doing the V.I.P. passes where you actually got to meet Muno, DJ Lance and the gang because they were only about $10 more per ticket. You got to dress up and film your cool tricks. But those were long gone!

The day after Thanksgiving, while the crazies were out shopping, we embraced a different kind of crazy and sang and danced and partied with the Gabba Gang!

Perks of being neighbors with Mia Reed!

 We LOVE our MAGA!!

 The New York Kamaes

 Fam Bam

BABIES!

With her beautiful eye and camera in hand, Mia Reed of Mia Marisa Photography has once again blessed our lives and been an amazing friend. Thank you for sharing your talents with us and helping capture our memories on film. We LOVE YOU!!

Because I have been given much.

In my countdown to Thanksgiving post, I mentioned some of the things that we are grateful for.  The lyrics at the beginning of the post are from a song that Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney sing in White Christmas (My FAVORITE holiday movie).

Our Thanksgiving was spent surrounded by family and friends. My wonderful Hubs, Mr B secretly flew my Brother, his wife, their baby and their very close friend out here to Long Beach from Buffalo, NY where they moved a year ago. Maga and Tutu made it out there to visit this past summer but aside from Facebook and cell phone pics, we hadn't seen them in SUCH a long time.

Needless to say, we were thrilled to have them here with us for 5 days! Here are some pictures of our fabulous Holiday!

 SO surprised to find Keola, Amanda, Anthony and Michael posed in the garage at midnight! Bad weather delayed their flight in Detroit so instead of a 6pm arrival, their plane didn't land until10ish. We had a heck of a time keeping up for seemingly no reason but were over the moon when that "no reason" turned out to be our wonderful family! THANK YOU HUBS!!

How cute are HeaBug and AnthonyMan? He's so tall, they're the same size and she's six months older! They had such fun together.

 Beautiful setting for a YUMMY dinner!

 My Thanksgiving Day team (some of them anyway, so not opposed to a kitchen FULL of helpers)! Stuffing in the Le Creuset, Beautiful 21 pound bird slathered in truffle butter, olive oil and herbs de provence, Gravy and Breezer's delicious last minute pumpkin pies!

Dinner for 30... including 6 mish who serenaded us with Because I Have Been Given Much, one of my faves! (Riddoch, JuiceBox, Reece, Klein, Serrano and Roberts)