on the fourth day of Christmas

on Christmas Day

 a Dear Little Child was found lying in the manger...

please vote

Which of these two fabulous taco dinners is more "gourmet"???

 please vote...

A or B

in the comments

a family project

in progress...

she's five

and we celebrated!

two

 months to go...

the first real snowstorm of the year

....started in the kitchen...

making its way to the livingroom...

with the help of  a few sparkly little lights

`

the snow plows won't be here till spring to clear up its aftermath...

being "snowed in" isn't such a bad deal after all!

where's the hot cocoa and whipped cream?

preparing for a big birthday

this year we are doing things a little differently...

each of the kids took 24 paper circles,

decorated them,

and wrote little "gifts" they could give to 

Baby Jesus

for His

birthday this year.

as the pull one out of their envelope and do the task on the back,

they staple them to the string in the living room and make a paper garland.

i ran out of colored paper so we used white,

but

i think im going to have to have them refill their envelopes due to their avid  desire to

"clean the toilet" "make mama's bed" "clean out the fridge" "fold the laundry" "dust the cobwebs" etc.

the next paper garland will be colored and i can't wait to show you  how beautiful it will be

please tell me

i'm not the only person on the face of the planet, who's advent wreath has already looks like this.

thanks.

yes, on day three of advent, our poor pink candle bit the dust.

it underwent extensive surgery.

thankfully,

surgery was a success

sort of.

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belgian waffles

 were not meant to be made this way...

  ever.

you will soon realize that flipping the waffle maker over onto a bowl, will cause much shattering of one of your favorite already chipped breakfast bowls.

(you may also realize that your ten yr old, is now wearing the same shoe size as you...as a matter of fact, he's wearing your shoes to help with the clean up...uh, when did that happen?)

your waffles will end up looking not so belgian...

and your toddlers will look something like...

this.

 my advice..

put a lot of whipped cream on whatever it is, and call it good

fun times

we made SPRINKLES!!

very awesome, very cool, sprinkles..

that somehow managed to turn

VERY army green...

thankfully,

its the week for being thankful,

and

fall colors just happen to be the ticket

anyway,

you should totally give these a shot!

way fun...

here's where i got the idea and recipe to make

Rainbow Sprinkles

oh,

and i would HIGHLY recommend using more than one piping tube

 if you plan on making more than one color.

*wink wink*

guess what we're making

guess where we are...

or were...

i sorta feel like this...amongst all the things i have to do over the next week or so....

but....

im finally getting caught up with pictures and blogging and all that computery stuff.

hopefully.