Thursday, December 20, 2012

Annual Cookie Baking Day!

We had our annual cookie baking day with the Hudsons and Grandma on Saturday!!  It is always so much fun and the kids love it more and more each year!  This year we let them help cut out sugar cookie dough (which we threw away because it ended up being too sticky to actually do anything with), decorate sugar cookies with paint brushes and frosting (we made some round cookies that would actually work!), put thumb prints in melt-aways (which we ended up having to completely re-do), and layer all the ingredients into the 7-layer bars (which actually turned out OK!).  It was so much fun..and even though Deanna and I have both eaten enough cookies to make ourselves sick EVERY day since...we will definitely keep this up every year if we can!

Getting ready for sugar cookie cutting









Might want to turn the volume down a little before watching the video...the kids were singing Jingle bells...this was after we had already established that the dough was going in the trash, so we let them just go to town!!




taking a break to play


Grandma teaching them how to thumbprint the melt-a-ways






Painting on the frosting










The after...not too bad considering...I figured all the colors would be mixed up by the end!!

Another cookie break...this time to read books with Grandma

Crushing the Vanilla Wafers for the 7 layer bars

Their rewards for the end of the day...
(I had to change the "I" to a "B" because Grandma didn't like the I...so, actually I should say...She changed the "I" to a "B")

7 layer bars...












Deanna got a few shots of all the kids :)






Monday, December 17, 2012

Phone Dump!

Here are the things I have captured on my phone the past few weeks..

We had a sink bath one night because we didn't have time for a regular bath...

This was what we wore to church one day a couple weeks ago



I think this pic is funny...looks like she is distraught at the idea of him stealing her fruit snacks

Getting our tree

watching daddy get the tree...

making birthday cards for Ms. Sabrina

Silly girls in the bathtub...




Last week we joined the YMCA!  The girls LOVE the new playroom and it is perfect because we can drop them off and go workout...together...first time in over 3 years!!!

Leah asked me to turn on "music we can dance to"...


At the Damascus fire station for a birthday party for our little neighbor friend Kayden







Our first swim of the season at the Y

It's cold wearing bathing suits in the winter!!


The girls are TERRIFIED of Santa...they don't even want to go see him at the mall...but Cesar and I agreed we would sit with them if they would go up there during a tree-lighting ceremony in our neighborhood the other night and they seemed to be fine with it...it was only temporary though...at the mall today they wanted nothing to do with him!!

Cesar really wanted his pic with Santa too!  Seriously :)

Decorating the Tree

I can't remember what day this was...but we spent a Saturday night decorating our tree and playing Candyland.  It was the first time we had played a board game with the girls and they LOVED it!  They ask to play it EVERY day!!!  They don't exactly get the point..but they love picking cards and moving their pieces around the board.  Anyway..no pics of that but here are some of us decorating the tree...they also do this daily (which drives me nuts because they take all the ornaments off and then put them back on...if they feel like it...they usually get through half and get bored, so I have to force them to clean them all up before we do anything else!!).









Couldn't get a non-blurry one of the tree with the lights on...oh well!