December was packed full with Todd’s birthday, several friends’ birthdays, a surprise party, & Christmas of course!

We were very careful this year not to spend much money for the holidays, so I tried to be more creative. I made photo scrap books for a couple friends full of photos of us all hanging out over the years. I saved a space on the last page for one last photo & brought along my camera and tripod when we had our gift exchange. After they opened their albums, we got together for a group shot to include at the end of their book. Some of the out takes are below. The present that I received made me CRY, but in a good way. It was an amazing hand-painted portrait of Blue Kitty! Besides all of that, we had a great Christmas in Tulsa. It was a good year!

Check out more photos in the Birthdays & Christmas 2008 Flickr set.