Christmas Morning!

We meet at Moms house at 8:00 on Christmas morning. This is one tradition that has been the same for many years. We open our stocking first. Santa still comes to moms house for us. We all sit on the floor with our stockings in front of us and just open and leave a pile of paper on the living room floor. Jerzie thinks that is pretty cool.

Then we pass out our presents to each other. As you can see Jerzie got buried with presents from Grandma, Chris and I. She already opened her presents from Mommy and Daddy at home.

We all made out very well. We are all spoiled around this time of year.

Jerzies mommy made a Mets blanket for her Daddy for Christmas this year. I was at a craft show and the lady was selling this small Mets blanket for $2.00 so I had to pick it up for her.

She really got into opening her gifts this year. You should have seen the look on her face when Daddy and Uncle Chris brought her big present from grandma out. She was so excited. I guess everyone else was too because I don't have one picture of her. Grandma got her her own desk and chair. She just loved it.

What'cha Eatin' ?

On Christmas Eve while everyone was eating their dinner Jerzie wanted something to eat also. So she got some cheese and crackers (one of her favorite things to eat).

Mommy also put a couple of M&M's on her plate.

If you look at her cheese and crackers she also had a little surprise. She did this herself. No one helped her do it.

She made a cheese, cracker and M&M sandwich and ate it.

Yummy!

That's a little girl that Loves her chocolate!!

Christmas Gifts!

Now that we have given these gifts and have the time to post about them we wanted to show them to you. While Laurie and Mom were at the Hamburg craft show in the fall Laurie saw this print and knew that it was something that Uncle Bob and Aunt Norma would like. The only problem was that it wasn't framed. Chris took care of that problem.

He made a frame out of 70 year old barn board.

Those of you that read Moms blog know how much she loves different kinds of ferns, so while we were on vacation we took quite a few pictures of ferns while out hiking. We were hoping we would get a good one to blow up for a Christmas gift for Mom. We had this one made into a 16"X20" and Chris made the frame to fit in with Moms decor. It was left pretty natural. All he did was whitewash it so the fresh cut marks didn't show.

Christmas Cookies!

We made ten different kinds of cookies and candies and three different kinds of sweet Chex Mix this year. Every year we say we are going to cut back but we find something new to make every year.

We hand out at least ten trays to family every year.

This year we made.....

Chocolate Chip
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Cream Wafers (Julie Cookies)
Mexican Wedding Cakes
Yuletide Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
Potato Candy
Almond Toffee with Chocolate on Top
Rum Prints
Mice (Recipe was thrown away after this year!!)

Snowy Sunday!

On our last day of vacation this fall we got up in the morning to 30 degree temps in Lake Placid. While driving around to get a few more fall pictures we ran into some snow.

This picture is of the famous Whiteface Mountain. People actually ski down this mountain in the winter. By the time we got here to take pictures it had stopped snowing and only the mountain top was covered.

Here is a close up of Whiteface. Below are some of the other high peaks taken from the Adirondack Loj Road.

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Girls Afternoon!

What do you get when you have a "girls only" afternoon to do a Christmas craft?

You get little carrot noses....

Styrofoam balls cut in half....

Fake snow....

Glitter snowflakes....

Glittered Styrofoam balls cut in half....

Laughter....

Smiling faces....

One determined little girl....

You get these cute little snowmen.

We made 41 little snowmen. Mom, Tabatha and I each got 13 to give to who ever we wanted to and Jerzie got to make 2 herself and hang them on her tree. We always have such a good time when we get together to do crafts.

Happy New Year!!

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2009!

Happy New Year!