Christmas 2010

We started off our Christmas with a toast (with what else, but mimosas) to the newly engaged couple! Then it was down to business, presents!
Kaki ♥'s her snowman!
...and Cortney liked her snowflake covered gourd...
Dad, our designated 'present-passer-outer' ☺

Beepa and her Santa!
...and Mom opened up hers too!

This would be the painting I got from Cortney (painted by hers-truly)
...white birches, lil' bit of NH gets to hang on my wall. ☺

I had a wonderful Christmas. I say it time and time again, but I am so thankful for my family. We have good times and we have our bad, but I honestly don't know where I would be without each and every one of them.

So thank you, not only for the presents, but for being there for me and being just who you are.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ♥

Merry Christmas To All

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

Christmas Crafties

Got a lil' more crafty with Christmas this year...painted some ornaments...

...some with crackle finish...




...then got a lil' crazy with the gourd painting ☺

(every snowflake on this one is different)

...and I finally got the guts to try out some Santa's.

Christmas Yummys

We are doing a cookie swap this year on Christmas..and I chose wedding cake cookies (made gluten-free)...they are soooo addicting, just ask everyone that has tried one (it's pretty near impossible to keep it to just one) ;-) ♥

Christmas Cookies ♥

This year us girls went over to help Beepa make her famous Christmas Cookies. We cranked up the Christmas music and began...

(Cortney helping Kathy keep count of how many cups of flour she had measured so far.) We made two batches and had two 'cookie makin' stations'...Kathy was designated to one...
...and I to another...

"I'm ready to go in the oven."
Cookie rotatin' ☺

Toby was a great lil' helper, he stayed outta the way for the most part and we never had to sweep anything up that we dropped. He is my own personal vacuum. ☺
"Now I'm ready for frosting..and a lil' sprinkles."
Our 'frosting and sprinkle station'...
We tricked Dad into coming over under false pretences...a certain someone said something sprung a leak and we needed him over asap! So he of course came over promptly with his tools...
...he wasn't too impressed when he realized we only tried to get him over to help frost the cookies (something he always tried to get out of doing as a kid.) Needless to say, he soon ran away with his tools in hand, hehe.
...Cort was left to frost most of the cookies, since the rest of us were busy making more for her to frost. ☺
We covered the surface of every counter with cookies...yup there is more on the other side of the sink...
...and the oven...

...also made gluten-free cookies this year...

cookies, cookies, everywhere ☺

Yum!

Getting Ready For Christmas!

We are getting all geared up for Christmas...decorations are all up, stockings are all hung, and we finally got the tree decorated. However upon putting most of the ornaments up we noticed the tree was quite crooked, so, we fixed it. ☺ (Let it be duly noted that it's not my keister under there, I was designated as tree holder upper, hehe)

Took a minute to decorate Toby too. Though he looks like he is more ready for mardi gras then Christmas...

Tada, the Christmas tree in all is splendor...and now it's straight! ☺

Christmas is absolutely my favorite holiday! ♥