Christmas 2011

Logan tracking Santa - so excited!

The magical glow of Christmas morning

Logan is the first one up

Harley opens his gift - a new Bobo

gift from Santa

Chloe's elephant pillow pet - she's so silly

making pan biscuits - mmmm!

the Christmas breakfast table

Harley and Bobo

Christmas dinner with the cousins

Merry Christmas!

More sweets....

chocolate nutella fudge - yum!
Got the recipe here

more puppy chow

Logan can't get enough of this stuff.
Who can blame him - it's
delicious!

Cookie baking with Mom

Turn up the x-mas music...
Put on your apron...

and your cozy slippers....
and start making cookies!

Raspberry Swirls - turned our great.

peanut butter kisses

pecan cresents

Cookies are done!
Check that off the list.

Snow globes

Logan and I made snow globes today.
We tried making them with water and
glitter, but it was kind of a mess...
We ended up dumping out the water and
just using fake snow instead.
They turned out really cute.
We also mixed up a batch of
puppy chow and watched
"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas",
the Jim Carey version.
It was a holiday kind of day.
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Recipe to try

New cookie recipe I want to try

this year.

Found the recipe here.

The recipe calls for walnuts, but I am

going to substitute pistachios.

Annual xmas cookie baking day
with Mom is this coming Wed.

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Recipes on deck:

Almond Cresents

Peanut butter kisses

Choc./Peanut butter Ritz
and

Raspberry Swirls

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Tree decorating

Chloe helped me with the xmas tree

lights this year.

Ta-da!
Our big fat, Charlie Brown,
Christmas tree.

Birthday and xmas tree hunt

We spent my birthday on our annual trip
up north to cut down our x-mas tree.

There was a lot of snow

The hunt is on

Taylor found a little one
for his new apartment.

Yes, I brought wine...
A girl has to keep warm - right?!

Lasagna soup for lunch, mmmm

Harley enjoying the snow.

After a few hours of hiking through the snow...
we found our tree.

This picture of Logan cracks me up!

Chloe gets dumped with a branch
full of snow.... I think Taylor had
something to do with that....

Pooped puppy - us too.
It was a great day - couldn't have
ask for a better birthday present.
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