Christmas in Florida

Can't believe Christmas was seriously almost a month ago already! Christmas was spent with Dero and the Kiddos (Anjali + Nikhil). Meet the family:

As a child, I was Dero's shadow. I remember wanting to always spend the night and always spending the night, =). At the age of 16 she had the privilege of practicing her future parenting on me when I moved in. I've basically lived with Dero since then. When I think home in Florida, I always think Dero's home. The kids grow so fast! I feel like everytime I see them they're a year older and 10 years wiser. They're at such a fun age now. Anjali can actually read this and can probably operate a computer much better than me. 

I got to play with my camera a little using the children as my subjects. They were quite the active subjects but I got quite a few good shots. I've saved some in my "photography" tab but here are some that are my favorites: 

Dero got Sketchy and me amazing things in life for Christmas. 

cute little bag

Lots and lots of very helpful gift cards for new house! Also a Target gift card not pictured. 

So what has Dero helped put together in the house with these cards? 

Our first purchase with the cards was this from Bed Bath & Beyond:

I had been eyeing this bedding for a while. Love the colors. Perfect for the guest room! 

Home Depot helped us changed our dead bolts (will add a picture tomorrow) and bought cans of chalkboard paint and oil-rubbed bronze paint which will be featured all throughout the house. Will post pictures of the DIY items I create with those later. The remainder will go towards yard/fencing situation! 

Target is going to purchase our set of home phones. Crazy to have a real landline and real phones again! Picture also to come. 

We're saving the Groupon giftcard for the right deal for a fun date night next month after all the running around/manual labor/house assembling/house warming party! 

The gift cards were the perfect range of stores. So many little parts of our new home made possible thanks to Dero! Giant thank you to her and we both can't wait for Dero and the kids to see the house this summer!