Monster

Ummm cookies Monster Faces....so scary

Today we decided to stay home and bake... MONSTER COOKIES... daddy will not like that as he will just have to eat them. Aiden and Sheriden love to cook, bake, any general event in the kitchen is great with them the messier the better the more sugar the better. Today was fun Aiden was able to locate all the measuring spoons and cups for us. Using his new found still of letters and number. Thanks UPK for that. Here is the recipe for the cookies if you would like to give them a try. www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_32570,00.html

In our home we call this quality control...

Here is a photo of all the grandkids in the family! We take a photo every year and give it to the grandparents for christmas. the photos were taken by Photography by Amy http://www.photographybyamy.smugmug.com/or her blog http://ourpictureoftheday.blogspot.com/ .

Christmas 2007

This photo is just before the kids woke. The tree is beautiful, what excitement there was this year. We spent Christmas eve sprinkling reindeer food in our driveway, and milk and cookies out for Santa.

You also can't forget tracking Santa every 1/2 hour all day long.

What a fun year the kids really got in to it.

Holiday Party 2007

Thank you to all that made it to our 7th annual Holiday Party! We had a blast; Good food, Great Friends, and even Santa!

SNOW

Winter is here in CNY. We have snow, well more snow then just a dusting. It has been snowing for 4 days off and on. These are the kids bird houses out side the kitchen window.

Tree Harvesting

There it is being loaded on to the tractor.

Pull Aiden Get Sheriden to help you out teamwork!

A good place for a rest!

Well last weekend when it was warm (40 degrees) out we just went to look over 65 acres. With Grandma Sue and both kids. We pick out a tree and marked it and also found one for g'ma too. Now to the goods this weekend we went to "Harvest it" 14 feet tall. I will tell you a tree farm (we go to Goodmans http://www.christmastreesny.org/Goodmans/) is very happy to get rid of the big ones, so they are eager to help you out. As a 14 foot tall tree is not that easy to cut and drag out much less load on the Mini (van). No to mention it was the coldest day of the season it was about 20 degrees with a high wind. Sheriden Stayed home with Grandma and Aunt Jean, Aiden, Grandpa, Rob and I (the harvesting teem) Frozen manged to get this tree home, inside sanding and drip drying off.