Reindeer Cookies

These reindeer cookies are a fun, easy, cute and tasty cookie that the kids can make.

Church Christmas Program

Isaiah and Olivia were both angels in the Church Christmas program. Micah was all excited to be Jesus(a little older... when the wise men came). At the last moment he wouldn't go up and his friend Tate filled the spot. During practice, one of the kids said, "I'm a shepherd. Who's in charge of me?" Then Micah said, "I'm Jesus. Who's in charge of me?" After that, whenever he saw the girl who was playing Mary, he would say, "She's in charge of me when I'm Jesus."

Gingerbread Houses

I helped volunteer in Isaiah's classroom the day they made gingerbread houses. It was a lot of fun to see how kids decorated their houses. I don't know if you can tell very well from this picture, but these two girls covered every tiny spot with candy and sprinkles. When they were finished the one plate was even full to the edge with sprinkles. The houses were made of two milk cartons taped together. They stayed together really well(each kid had their own container of frosting). We didn't bring it home until after the Christmas program,a week later. The kids ate every last piece of candy, stale or not.






Isaiah's finished masterpiece! He did a great job.

A Couple of Turkeys

Last week, Olivia, Micah and I made these turkey hats. Gotta love the Family Fun website.

Happy Birthday, Olivia

Olivia opened her presents, bright and early. I didn't want her to have to wait all day until Randy and Isaiah got home(that would have been torturous for me), so she opened them at 7:30. She loves "make-up", so we got her a make up bag with some bubble gum chap stick and some bubble gum in it. She almost went through 1 1/2 packs today! She also got some perler beads. She had fun making a horse and a cute square today.




She saw this guitar in the Fleet catalog a few weeks ago and put it on her list. She was pretty tickled that she got it. Her and Micah were putting on shows today.



Olivia wanted pumpkin cookies. So, I found a recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Tonight we had supper over at the Normans. Sarah made a yummy cheesecake. I forgot my camera(I'll have to get copies from Sarah).

We love you, Olivia!

Happy Birthday, Isaiah

Isaiah opened up this huge Lego set this morning before school. He saw it at Walmart a couple of weeks ago and really wanted it. It's just under 1,000 pieces and there are instructions for building 3 houses.




We started building one house after school and worked on it until supper. We did a little more after supper, but we had to move on to dessert.




Isaiah wanted pumpkin pie instead of cake. It was quite tasty, if I do say so myself.



We love you, Isaiah!

Trick-or-Treat