Decorating the house

The hubby did an awesome job on the house this year.

I love my crazy kids.

Checking out the lights

 

The hubby decided to put lights on the whole house this year. Usually they are just on the front porch.

I am loving how it looks this year. All that is missing is a little snow and for these 65 degree temps in December to go away ;)

Cutie has returned



Here is Cutie. She came back the same day that we put our tree up.
We went out to dinner and came home and she was here.

Cutie decided to toilet paper part of the house



Cutie added some decorations to our tree.

christmas time

Tis the season

"kiss cookies" as my hubby calls them. Made enough to snack on
and then some for Santa.

A little center piece I made. Glued candy canes to a jar and filled
the jar with Hershey kisses

butterfly cookie masks

Alana has a very cute cookbook that Grandma B got her.  She saw these cute little butterfly masks in there and wanted to make them. Daddy got called into work so I decided to cheer the kiddos up by making these with them. I think their favorite part was testing the frosting just to make sure it was good.

cutting out the hearts

put the points together and pinch them

cutting out the "eye holes"

Having a great time helping

cooling waiting for some frosting

very carefully placing the sprinkles just right

All done. We are going to a friend's house later for dinner
and she decided to leave a couple blank in case someone didn't
like sprinkles.

Yummy tomatoes

Our tomato plant was going crazy and we had way more tomatoes than we (I) could eat. So I decided to try and make my own tomato sauces.

Here they are all peeled

It smelled sooo good. Added a little of this and a little of that.
Should have written down what I put in there. It was good.

Freshly made bread sticks to go with it...sure why not?!

Alana's quilt

I had some left over material and needed something to do with it. My Mom suggested making a quilt. It just so happened I was planning a trip to OH to stay with them for a week with the kiddos so I packed it all up and brought it with me. We went over my Grandma's house and she showed me how to cut the squares out and get it going.  What a fun day that was. I never thought in a million years I would do a quilt!

My squares didn't actually line up but it's all good. Adds character

Alana picked hot pink for the backing of her quilt

Here she is all snuggled up in her quilt. I think she likes it.

Nothing a little love can't fix

So the hubby was having a bad couple of days. So in order to cheer him up the kids and I decided to make him a cake and his favorite meal to let him know that we loved him.

The kids decided to use the Garfield cake pan my Aunt just gave me.
I forgot to take a picture before we cut into it.

Dave's Favorite meal. Chicken Kastu, steamed rice, and mac salad.