Christmas 2009

What a fun Christmas! We had Caroline, Melissa, Dan, Camille, Garrett, and Colin all come for a visit. We loved spending time with all of them. We went sledding, played where's the pickle (quite a few times), went shopping, snowboarding, made awesome cajun salmon, built snow forts, made gingerbread houses, and of course enjoyed some fajitas for old times sake. We love you all and can't wait to spend time with you again. The only thing I regret is not taking more pictures. Love you!

Yummy, homemade fudge and chococlate truffels Kenzie and I made for the neighbors (we finished around 1:00am, but they were yummy!)

Calvin's Christmas Concert

Calvin played his clarrinet for his Christmas Concert. He loves being in the band and has some great friends. He did very well and we are so proud of him.
Chris, Calvin, and Andrew

Decorating Cookies for Christmas

What a fun time, we decorated gingerbread cookies for Christmas. These are definately my ultimate favorite cookies! Thanks to Annie for introducing us to these cookies, and Aunt Steph for the recipe. Yum-Yum! The only downside to making them, besides wanting to eat them all, is the batch makes about 70-100 cookies! So of course we invited Aspen, Sadie, and Miya over to help us decorate and eat them. Its great to have good friends!
The maker of all good icing! Yummy!
Miya and Sadie, Cute sisters!

Concentrating on decorating cookies

Corbyn says this activity gets "two thumbs up!"

Corbyn, always the jokester!

Sadie, Corbyns friend!

Aspen took a break from her book report to have a little cookie fun!

This project is right up Kenzie's creative alley!

Even Calvin loves it in the kitchen, he wants to be a chef, the next Alton Brown.

You've got to love Good Eats! The only picture I have and probably will ever have with Calvin smiling that big. I told him to smile and this is what a 13 year old does to get back at me. Love ya, Calv but the jokes on you!

Mom's cookies! Go Me, look at that star!

Kenzie's Creations! I think she ws there late into the night decorations away!

Calvin's Cookies!

Even Chloe got in the action...the eating action!

Yeah, Cookies! More! More!

The Cookie Clan!

Nice teddy bear, Calv!

Yeah, another cookie, that's 3 so far!

Kenzie had to get into the Christmas spirit with her Santa hat!

Nice flower on his sweater!

How cute is the detail on Kenzie's cookie...little gingerbread garland!

Corbyn's Christmas Violin Concert

Corbyn had her violin concert and she did very well. We also found out, to our surprise, that she is in a group with 5th and 6th graders. I was very to surprised at this announcement because in the summer program she was young for that group, with 3rd and 4th graders. I thought she moved up with that group but obviously not. She was so cute and they all played very well. It was really great because G'ma & G'pa came up to see her play and she got to show off what she has been learning. Love ya Corbyn and keep up the good work on the violin!