Sour Cream Cookies with Emmie

Here is Emmie making Sour Cream cookies one of my all time favorites. This is the cookie that she picked to make. I think she likes the frosting more then the cookie.

I just had to get a picture of her and her cute little apron that Lanette bought her last year!

Here is the finished cookies. We took some over to the neighbors and also left a few out for Santa ! Not that Santa needed any more cookies that night. The kids all really enjoyed doing some Christmas cooking. I think we might do that every year! It was fun for me and them!

Coconut Balls with Ty

Ty's stirring up the mixture for Coconut Balls. This is the first time that he will be trying them. I made them a long time ago when he was little and now he likes coconut and he wanted to make them.

He did test the chocolate as you can see by the side of his mouth!

He did a pretty good job and has decided that he loves them and wants to make them every year! The bad thing is that I love them also! But I just have to control myself and give half away! I guess it's only Christmas time once a year so we can splurge a little bit, right?

Maggie and Mollie

Here is a picture of Maggie and Mollie. I'm sure most of you have seen them before, but I thought that it wasn't very nice of me to not have them on our family blog! I'm surprised that Emmie hasn't said something to me about not having them on here! Maggie kind of had a hard time this year. We had to remove a large tumor that was on her back side. They said that it most likely will come back and that we might only have her for another year. But she seems to be doing very well, even better then we thought. Maggie and Mollie

This is what they do all day long! They lay together and Maggie is pretty much is charge. Where ever Maggie lays Mollie has to curl up right beside her.

Christmas Goodies!

This is what Devin and I did tonight! I decided that I would let each one of the kids pick their favorite holiday treat and we would make it together. Devin was the first one to get to make his choice and he wanted to make Peanut Butter Butterscotch Balls! I do have to say that he picked a favorite of mine! It was a really nice night for us to make them. Ty ended up going to a friends house to spend the night and Tim took Emmie with him to a basketball game so it was just the two of us!

Devin is stirring up the butterscotch mix just getting ready to dip the balls!

Here they all are on the platter. He did a pretty good job at helping out. Now we will just have to try and keep out of them for a few more days! Tomorrow I will be making coconut balls with Ty and Emmie wants to make sour cream cookies. Two more of my favorites!

Putting up the Christmas tree!

We actually put up the Christmas tree a couple weeks ago so I'm posting these a little late! As you can see we have a little baby tree. We got rid of our other one last year and got his little one thinking that we would only use it for the year and then get a bigger one, but I guess we will be using it again this year. Which is fine, because we do have a pretty small area for a tree to go into, so it works out fine for now. Here are the kids each doing some decorating of the tree. We can only put on half of our ornaments because it's so small and it just might tip over if we get to many on one side.

Ty wanted to put up my favorite little snowman ornament.

I think they all had fun decorating the tree and were all just waiting for there to be presents under it! Only a few more days! Seems like it goes faster every year! They are all very excited and the boys are glad that today is their last day of school! Devin has had finals all week long and is looking forward to some time off from studying.

Emmie gets a hair cut!

Here is a picture of Emmie before we got her hair cut. She has been putting it off for some time. It's just been getting really hard for me to brush and it's been taking me a long time to get all of the tangles out of it. She did not want it short, which I told her was fine. We just needed to cut off the ends and try and make it a little more healthy looking.

Just getting ready for the cut!

I kind of liked this picture of her with it all up and it showed where we were starting the cut at. The lady that was cutting her hair asked me if I would like to take the first cut! I said no. I didn't want to mess it up.

I do have to tell you that she did cry a little bit while getting it cut! It was a little sad for her.

Here it is all done. I think it looks pretty cute. Now she can even wear her hair down and it will look good. Before the only way it looked good was if she was either wearing it in pony tails or in braids. What do you think? I'll try and get a picture of the front of her in the next few days. I just wanted to show the back where you can really see the difference. She ended up getting about 6 inches cut off.

Letters to Santa on a snowy Saturday!

This is what we woke up to this morning! It was perfect for what we had planned! This is Santa's mailbox. They had it downtown. I read about it in the paper and thought it was a super cute idea. I guess Santa will write you a letter back, so I had the kids write Santa a letter this morning and they all got to put their letter in the box.

Here is Emmie putting her letter in the box, I do have to tell you that it was very cold out this afternoon! It was only about 25 degrees while we were putting the letters in. It had just stopped snowing while we were driving.

Devin was a little embarrassed about the whole thing, but he did it!

This morning Ty had a little trouble writing his letter to Santa, but ended up getting it done. I did keep copies of the letters and plan to scrapbook the letter, this picture and the letter that they get from Santa. I'm always thinking of scraping! I just need to do it! I'm only behind by a couple of years or so!

Now here is me with the kids. Don't look to close,I'm really needing a haircut!

Tim's Turn. I'm not really sure what the heck Ty is doing! I think by this time everyone was ready to get someplace warm.

One last picture of the kids in front of the big Christmas Tree downtown. It was nice to do something different and have a afternoon with nothing planned and just hang out! I think we might be putting up the Christmas tree later tonight or tomorrow night!