Saturday, December 6, 2008

Cookie Exchange tomorrow

Our cookie exchange is tomorrow here at the house. We decided to allow other things as well as cookies to give everyone a bigger variety. I made cake balls. It was the first time I made them so they aren't the prettiest things but they sure are tasty!

We'll be having brunch tomorrow so I am making a feta quiche, french toast casserole, some finger sandwiches, and a spinach/herb dip with veggies for dipping.

I'll update tomorrow with lots of pictures! For now I need to get some sleep. Lots to do in the morning!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Christmas Pictures!!!

We got the kids' Christmas pictures done yesterday. They came out great! Robert wasn't very comfortable but this was the first time he didn't get upset and cry, and he did his best to cooperate.

Various Alessa

Alessa sometimes thinks she's a dog:

Every day she becomes more and more of a Daddy's Girl:


Hey, no cameras!
Good food!

Dancing Girl 02

Dancing Girl 01

My girl loves to dance!


Catch that Train!

Way overdue update!

I know it's been far too long since I've updated everyone. There hasn't really been anything really interesting happening lately. We've just been busy with the day-to-day minutia.

The children are great, as usual. Alessa is getting more and more personality every day and Robert is becoming quite the little boy. The baby in him is almost all gone now. It makes me happy and sad at the same time to see it. He loved trick-or-treating. He was so funny about it. He wanted to eat every single piece of candy as soon as he got it. It didn't matter that he was already sucking on a lollipop. He would hand it to Mark and ask for the next piece. He's so silly.

Since I am so far behind, here are some pictures from Halloween:

Thanksgiving was pretty quiet, but it was nice. We had a friend of mine over with her husband and children. There was lots of good food and it was a good time.

Here are some more recent pictures:
I am so excited about my new blog layout for the season. I think it's my best one yet! I know it's silly, but I keep coming back just to look at it because I love it so much.