Way Back When-sday

Cody and Chase with Santa 2 years ago.

Age: 6 months

December, 2006

Play along with Way Back When-sday with Cheryl at Twinfatuation

Menu Plan Monday

I thought I would join Sara at Twice is Nice and plan my food menu for this week. How simple is that - especially this week since it is a short week of cooking at what not with Christmas in there.

I have made a very easy food week.

Tonight: Campbell's Supper Bakes Herb Chicken

Tuesday: Roast in the Crockpot with Potatoes (Something we have every week or just about)

Wednesday: Having dinner at Steve's parents house for Christmas Eve.

Thursday: Again having dinner at Steve's parents house for Christmas.

Friday: Steak

Saturday: Hamburgers

Sunday: Mexican Food!!

I will let you know next week how this goes and how will I stick to the menu.

Have a great Christmas!

Photo Tag

Since I read Rachael's blog I thought I would play along with her.

Rules:

1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer

2) Select the 4th picture in the folder

3) Explain the picture

4) Tag 4 people to do the same

NO CHEATING! (cropping, editing, etc!)

Chase sitting in his chair at the Thunderboat Races we went to in September. They were at the beach, the boys had a great time.

I tag:

Amy at The Ward Family

Sara at Twice as Nice

Amber at Team Gillis

And anyone else that would like to play along.

Way Back When-sday

This is Christmas last year with all their gifts that they received! They are tottally spoiled!

Age: 18 months old

December, 2007

Check out Cheryls blog Twinfatuation for more Way Back Pictures...and play along!

Baking

I decided that today was a baking day. I made a bunch of holiday treats and knew that the boys could help me. I made pumpkin bread, Black bottom cupcakes, German Chocolate Coconut bars, and chocolate chip cookies. Everything turned out delicious, if I do say so myself. The boys thought that the chocolate chips were candy. And they ate a lot of them. They helped me stir and pour things into the bowls. Very fun!

They also keep me entertained by singing...a lot. If one is not singing, the other one is. Right now they are singing "Jingle Bells". Other songs get sung as well like ABC's and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". Which is a whole other post of the first performance. But anyways so while we were baking we were also singing. Very fun!

So since baking was so much fun and I had finished my official baking I brought out a gingerbread house kit. Okay I have never made a gingerbread house in my life so this was a new experience for me also. But I thought how hard could it be. Very hard. I guess I never could be a cake decorator.

It was much harder then I thought because I couldn't even get the frosting (if you call it that-sugar stuff that) the right consistency too stay on the house. After playing with it a while and adding water and powder sugar it stayed one long enough for Chase to get some candy on it, when he wasn't eating the candy himself. Cody liked it but liked playing cars much better so he went to play by himself as Chase finished. Chase had good time - but what a mess.

Our Tree

Steve brought home our tree on Friday evening. It is a flocked tree and stands about 10-11 feet high. Way bigger than our normal tree is but it is such a beautiful tree. We have while lights on it and I picked purple ornaments for it this year. Since I don't have my camera back yet from the repair shop I don't have good picture to show you.

Maybe tomorrow in the sunlight with all the drapes open I can take a picture of it. I am just using my video camera and it doesn't have a flash on it.

Steve and I put the lights on the tree on Friday night. Chase and Cody was "helping" also. They loved looking at the lights after they were on. They still do and we have to have the lights on all day also. On Saturday morning I started the task of decorations. We only broke one bulb. (Yes, I bought glass ornaments a few years back) not thinking that I would ever have 4 hands that like to hold bulbs in there hands! But the tree after decorating it for half the day turned out beautiful.

Now only if I could put preents under the tree and not have those 4 littel hands unwrap them before I get the second one under there that would be good.

Holiday Season

It seems like the Christmas Season has taken over my blogging, computer and office time. At night when I normally have been blogging and "talking" to my friends, I have been decorating trees, baking, wrapping packages and shopping. So I am here again (at least for tonight). I do have some new pictures to post from this past weekend - so here it goes.

Oh by the way I, just spent the last hour getting updated on every one's blog. I love looking at every one's holiday traditions and family pictures. They all look so wonderful.