The shopping extravaganza aka Christmas ends!

Christmas is over. I would enjoy the holiday season so much more if it was not such a financial drain! The kids received so many cool gifts. They have been playing, reading like crazy. Maddie got some very cool books this year. (Nick too) I am not sure I can pinpoint a favorite this year but Nick got a set of wireless remote control cars and they both play with those without fighting. I think I need a 3rd for the big kid I married. :)

Santa brought me one of those Scooba things. It is an I-Robot that mops your floor. For those of you who have not been to this house, we have all tile, and I hate cleaning the floors. Very excited I can sit around while it cleans my floor. I used it for the first time today and it missed a few spots but even if it gets 90% I am a happy camper. :)

I got a new camera and am still learning the bells and whistles but I did get a few nice pic with my old camera so I will put those on and then add some of the kids later.

I can not believe we are just days away from 2008.

Merry Christmas!!

Wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I know this is the pic that I sent in the Christmas card but I looove it! The kids look so cute here. They even look like they like each other a little. :)

Weekend update

We had a very nice weekend. My Uncle Tim and Aunt Mary were in town and they come over for lunch with my Aunt Kathy. We had a really nice time and were glad to see them. They brought along some of the best caramel corn I have ever had and some gifts for the kids. Uncle Tim gave Nick a new google site to search and he is having a great time on google earth.

Sunday morning Maddie had a performance at the church for her pre-school. She was so sweet and looked adorable in her holiday wear. When Maddie was born mom and I were so excited to have a little girl we could play dress up with... we were in for a big disappointment. When I was getting her dressed for the show she was throwing a fit!!! I mean she was tearing at her shirt, screaming and kicking (just imagine a 3 yr old tantrum)... then when she saw she had black socks she LOST her mind... Pete and I had to hide our laughter, it was so dramatic and ridiculous. But she did eventually put it on (yes I used bribery).

I love her performances. She is at such an adorable age.

These are some of the photos of the show. My brother-in-law videotaped it so when he send it to me I will post on here. He also got some other really good pictures that I will be putting on here as well.

Virtual Christmas Card

Merry Christmas!!

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Christmas Cookie Extravaganza Day 2

Day 2 was a success. We had 3 friends instead of 2. We let them each decorate 12 cookies. We had a great day. The kids had fun and are currently burning off a sugar buzz in the backyard while I am doing this. The 5 kids used the kitchen table, then I set up our (I say it is ours but actually it belongs to either my dad or sister) looonng table for the adults. It was a lot less messy than day 1 of the cookie making. Yesterday was a mess because of all the flour. I think we decorated around 90 cookies today. But with 5 kids and 6 adults we were done in about 2 hours, cleaned up and everything. I wanna say thanks to everyone for helping clean up. Michelle did my dishes yesterday and my kitchen looked so nice :) It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas despite the t-shirts and shorts.

I think I fixed the problem

I have been told by several people that they are unable to leave comments on the blog. I think I have fixed the problem so if you were one of those people, you can try again..

Day 1 of Christmas Cookies

We started our annual Christmas cookie extravaganza today. Day 1 is the cutting and baking of the cookies. Day 2 is the decorating. As you can see Maddie got more flour on herself than anything else. But she had fun and that is all that matters, tile floors are not hard to clean. We invited 2 of the kids friends to join us for the decorating. I am going to give each kid a certain amount of cookies and their own bowl of colored frosting. Those are the cookies they get to eat and decorate. I prefer my cookies made with unlicked fingers. I am sure I will have some messy pictures to post tomorrow.