last saturday, mandy and her girls came over and we finished baking cutout cookies and then decorated them. isaac decorated one cookie, ate it, and ate two undecorated cookies and called it quits. the girls hung in till the bitter end and decorated a zillion cookies. the last is my favorite.
christmas
cookie apprentice
isaac and i decided it was time to to a little holiday cooking. he helped make the cookie dough, by reading numbers on the recipe and counting out the ingredients. and by sticking his fingers into sugar and licking them. both were very helpful. then, we got down to the fun part… cutting out the […]
eliot’s baby gift christmas present
so, when i found out that lesolie (sister) was going to have a brand new baby girl, i had the bright idea to try my hand at quilting. leslie was not gung-ho about all the pink baby girl items on the market, so i searched for some skull pink stuff and a cool pattern to […]
christmas wishlist.
me: isaac, what do you want for christmas? isaac: nothing. me: i thought you said you wanted “hiro” the train? isaac: i do want hiro the train. me: for christmas? isaac: no. for my train set.
family visit
late tuesday night (early wednesday morning, actually), my parents and jake rolled into town. since then, it’s been a festival of eating, playing the wii, more eating, shopping, cooking, eating, gifts, and eating. here’s jake and isaac contributing their strongest skills to the cooking: on christmas, isaac wasn’t as interested in getting gifts as […]
definitely NOT germ-free holiday baking…
(and yes, he’s still wearing the same shirt from yesterday).
christmas loot.
i see that i haven’t blogged in awhile. it’s been a bit hectic around here lately. we had our christmas party with derek’s parents over the weekend, so we were working fast and furious to get those gifts all lined up. we got some sweet loot from that exchange. i (we) got some christmas dishes […]
Not magical
I had never really given it much thought, but I guess I had hoped that the putting up of Christmas decor was more christmassy than this. 🙁 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
guitar hero holidays
here’s some shots of the family over the holidays.it was a little bit depressing…
back to normal….
my parents and jake came and went and now our life is back to normal. it has been a crazy couple of weeks, as i’m sure it’s been for everyone else. we celebrated our ny christmas on sunday. i got a wake forest hoodie and an immersion blender. a sweet one. to replace the $2 […]