Merry Christmas!

Wishing Everyone a great Christmas and 

New Years!

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Watch the video after this...
it's worth it!
(hyper toddler antics)

....and the sugar hits home...

Funny girl....

This is how the sugar got into the boy...

Cookie Party...(at least that's what Jeremy calls it...)

Every year, we have the same tradition. 

We have been doing it since my oldest girl was young...

We decorate cookies...

They aren't always the same cookies...

They aren't always good cookies...

Sometimes it is a crumby ginger bread house that won't stand...

but usually it is sugar cookies,

lots of colored icing..

and candy

They taste awful...

but we always have lots of fun...

For example, the year we crashed our van..

the cookies were kinda morbid..

ginger bread men...half bodies...red icing...

One of my girls, being naughty

put ta- tas on her cookie...

Mine had a tasteful bathing suit....

 This years version stars Spongebob characters...

(although I thought the one looked more like a 

pac man ghost...)

and there is NO WAY I am eating them...

You should see what Jeremy was doing with them....

Licking the knife comes to mind..

Gracie is too young to more then eat the 

cookies and candy...

but she did it quite well..

got really dirty...

and VERY hyper...

She loves posing for pictures...and so after a while

she decided to show me what was in her mouth...

 

We all laughed...

so of course that meant the boy wanted to do it too...

 

 
Everyone got hyper and silly, 

stayed up late, 

and had to have a bath after..

So over all..I would say..

a sucesful Cookie party!  :)

There will be some very funny videos 

of said cookie party coming..

so stay tuned!

Here is the first installment..

before the sugar hit.

Elmo's Christmas Carol...

Winter baby...

My Japanese daughter...

Chizuru stayed with us during a Japanese

student exchange about ten years ago

when we lived in Williams Lake...

since then we have stayed in contact.

She calls me mom and Kendal dad...  :)

Last year she got married 

and just recently found out they are expecting.

She is very excited..

She looks very beautiful...

Feeding the baby...  :)

On a cold winters night....

 

 

Here is Gracie cuddled up under a nice warm blanky

after a warm bath....reading her book..

wearing her warm house coat...

I bought it for her before she was born, 

and before I even knew she was a girl.

I justified it by telling myself I could always give it 

away as a gift if it wasn't a girl...LOL!