Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas!!

Got all sorts of goodies this year :)

 Up "bright" and early on Christmas morning!

 

Toby enjoying one of his gifts, a new chipmunk toy :)

 

Then we all dove in.....

Presents, presents and more presents :)

Grampa loved his lil' sign "Great Dads get promoted to Grampa" :)

Kathy gave Jason some big boy power tools! 

Spoiled boy, new Patriots collar and jersey :) and my Lordy is that dog furry! :)

 

After the mass chaos settled down..it was time for a nap (with his new blanket)...before we headed out for Chistmas dinner at Gramma and Grampa's.

 

 

All in all, had an absolutely fantastic day. Full of laughs and some great stuff. I love my family! We are blessed.

 

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas too!

 

Christmas Crafts

Some of the crafts I made for Christmas this year:

 

golfball/snowman ornaments

Cut, power sanded, and painted :)

  

 

 

Then after 2 failed attempts, I had to recreate my own red wine lollipop recipe (the one I had, simply didn't work!) 3rd time was the charm :) It's hard to see, but the molds I used were of a gingerbread man, and a moose! Got a kick out of the moose.

 

Made lots :)

Annual Christmas Cookie Makin'

This year was no exception! We helped Beepa make her famous, Christmas cookies! :)

 Oodles, and oodles...

..and oodles of them!

 

We have our system set in place by now. Kathy and I measure out, mix, kneed, roll out, and cut out the cookies. From there, Beepa mans the oven. She knows when they are perfectly done. Then Cortney is assigned to the frosting/sprinkle station.

 

This was Kathy, helping make more frosting, for our froster...

 ...who broke a cookie! *gasp*

 

She fixed it...withhhh, another cookie, hahaha

 

Our #1 rule...one must eat any cookie that is broken, through this long process. This rule is strictly reinforced. :)

(frosting/sprinkle station)

 

Sugar Rush!



 

Toby is an excellent kitchen helper...we didn't need to clean the floor after ;)

 

Almost ready for Christmas!!!

Christmas Tree Shoppin'

Out doing a lil' Christmas tree shoppin'

Kathy thought ahead this year, and brought a tape measure to make sure her tree would fit in her new house! :)

 

We did finally leave with 4 trees, and numerous other Christmas decor.