Christmas Cookie Extravaganza

A few nights ago my Mom-in-Love invited her daughters and all her son's significant others to a cooking baking party!  We had a great time baking together.  Candace gave all us gals aprons as gifts so we could all bake in them, it was so sweet.  I think this may become an annual event!

Here we all are in our fun aprons! Danielle-dating Bennett, Alekza- dating Bryan, Candace-  my Mom-in-love, Vanessa- Candace's sister, Bailey-dating Marshall, me, and Breanna.



 Aunt Vanessa making homemade hot cocoa

 Bennett and Danielle starting the baking.

Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Crescents!



The quartet made peppermint sugar cookies, these were my favorite!

 Bailey and Marshall made Chinese Tingalings- yes, that is what they are really called.

 Bryan and Alekza made chocolate m&m cookies.

 Bennett and Danielle made peppermint fudge.

 Breanna and I made chocolate peppermint frosted sandwiches.  Yummo!

Here is the spread!

 Tada!

 We all held off on eating the goodies until they were all done and then everyone got 1 of everything and chowed down!  Whatever wasn't eaten we packed up in boxes and took some home.

We hope to make this an annual event!  It was lots of fun and we were all rewarded with some great goodies!  Thanks to my Mom-in-Love for planning the fun evening!

Christmas Happenings

This month I am in full nesting mode! So along with Christmas happenings I have also been getting ready for Samuel's arrival. Speaking of Samuel, I have yet to blog about him at all! I am saving that post for next week. So like I said I have been getting the bedroom ready for Nathaniel and Samuel to share. In between that we have been doing fun Christmas activities. 

First I actually learned how to crochet! My fabulous Mom-in-Love taught me how to make a hat for Samuel!

Then I went to a fabulous local Holiday Home Tour!  This is the only pic I got from my phone.  My friend Sweet T will be blogging about that!  I'm so gonna add these bows to my tree next year!

Then I worked on some letters for the boys room and did some Modge Podging!

We went to Bass Pro Shops where they do free Santa pics and have all kinds of fun things for the kiddos to do.  Here is last years and this years side by side.  Ha!  He used to be so scared of old men and especially Santa!

Today we went to a Christmas Cookie Extraveganza at one of Nathaniel's little friends house.  It was so much fun!

I had to take a picture of some of her decor.  I love that new mesh stuff and seeing it everywhere!

She made these aweoms aprons for each child to wear while they decorated thier cookies and then packaged them all up in a cute box to take home.

 This weekend we are going to a Christmas show and have a few more things planned before Samuel's arrival!

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Pumpkin Fun!

Yesterday I had some friends over for a Pumpkin Carving Party! We had a great time carving pumpkins and letting the munchkins play some fun Halloween games.  Nathaniel was so excited having his friends over as well.

I love this picture!!  Look at William's face!  And then James with the empty watergun and Nathaniel eating his cupcake! Ha! 

Then this morning Lesh and I met our friends the Caraway's and the Cummings for our annual pumpkin patch pictures.  This is our third year to take these pictures and I'd say more difficult this year considering the kids just wanted to run around!  Ha!  It's a fun tradition and look forward to it every year!We were missing one though who was feeling under the weather.  We missed you Carly!

 Halloween 2009

Halloween 2010

Halloween 2011



Okay so this one is the best so far! Ha!