Christmas!

Pat's Family Christmas!

We got to celebrate Christmas with Pat's family a little early this year!

Happy Birthday!

Mom's Birthday was the 18th but we celebrated yesterday! Happy Birthday!


Yesterday was also our annual December baking day and we made Rugelach. It's a sort of pastry rolled into a crescent with a filling made of raisins, chocolate, jam and pecans. Really good but they didn't look as pretty as they did in the book!

Christmas Party!

Owen and his friends from playgroup had a little Christmas party yesterday and this was the best picture we could get of all four of them (I'm in there too, see my hand?)! It was good practice for next week, I learned that we may need to budget more time for opening gifts since Owen didn't exactly tear into the paper as I had anticipated, even though he loved ripping the paper. The kids had fun though, they each opened a gift from their Secret Santa then quickly abandoned their own gifts in order to play with someone else's:)

Fun for Free

Get together with some friends


Find an old box to scoot around in

Play in the firetruck strollers at the mall

Identify letters on your shirt

Outtakes!

Our Christmas cards are in the mail! We did them pretty quickly so hopefully we didn't miss anyone. As organized as we try to be we always miss someone but that's why we have extras! Plus we never stay updated with our addresses so that's an issue too. Anyway, here are some of our outtakes. Initial attempts at setting the timer on the camera didn't work since Owen kept going for the camera when we would set it down. Then we tried to hold it ourselves at armlength. Then we finally realized if we gave Owen a camera to hold while we set the timer on the other camera he was happy and that's how we finally ended up with our picture!

Rawr!

It's always interesting when Owen gets up from a nap because you never know what his reaction will be when you walk in. Sometimes he says "No?!" and runs to the other side of the crib. Sometimes he'll point at me, smile and say "Mama!" Today was a new one though. He looked at me very seriously and whispered, "Rawr!" That meant we needed to go find Leopard. So we did. Then we all watched for cars out the front window so we could say "Beep, beep!" when they passed by. Sigh. So cute.

They Lied!

I thought cold pizza for breakfast was supposed to be fun and exciting. I think I got halfway through my slice before I began feeling a bit sick...I'll stick with pizza for lunch or dinner! One more breakfast and I'm done with the 30 days!!!

New hat?

For Pat-mwa ha ha! It's a special dark!

Silly

Just a couple of pictures of us over the weekend.

I actually made myself breakfast this morning and didn't get any clear pictures. It still counts though! I had a mix of blackberries, banana and pecans. To make up for it I added a picture of our Christmas mobile hanging in the kitchen.

Advent Calendar

This is our Advent Calendar! I started making it awhile ago and actually got it done in time! 25 little felt envelopes filled with chocolate. Originally they were going to be strung across our fireplace until I realized they would get in the way of our stockings...and then I got sick of thinking about it and they all went into a red bowl:)

French Breakfast Puffs

I don't know why these are different from muffins but they are somehow. They were really good, I think the cinnamon-sugar topping may have something to do with it...


Aww...This picture is so cute even though Owen either had his eyes closed or was looking at the camera he was holding. We had attempt number one yesterday for getting a good Christmas picture of all of us...we'll try again today...

Hi Owen!

It's a video! Yippee! There's a lot of movement since Owen was trying to take the camera but at least you can hear his amazing animal noises. Here's hoping this one is easier to see than the one from Halloween!

And...I'm Back!

I took a break from blogging and making new breakfasts for a few days since Pat was home and Owen decided his new wake-up time was 5 am. Thanksgiving was great but Owen magically deleted all the pictures from that day so we took some pictures of us eating the leftovers!

Cinnamon-Pecan Pancakes from yesterday morning! I think I have four more to go...