The Lighted Parade

Yup, those silly people in the picture are all mine! Don't Be Jealous.

 Our town has a lighted parade. This was the first year we have attended and we really enjoyed it.

The kiddos loved seeing Santa.



Cheesy Pepper Jack Pizza



I didn't do food co-op on Tuesday with Ashley (I will tomorrow I got to get some much needed groceries prior to cooking for her. I put off grocery shopping anyways but when its cold it's at the bottom of my list) but this is what I concocted for supper Monday. I can't take all the credit Kwik Star does sell a Pepper Jack Pizza.

 Here's what you need
1 Pizza Crust
3 to 5 Jalapenos
1 cup chopped Red Pepper
Pizza Sauce
Mozz and Cheddar Cheese

 Chop Peppers

 Add toppings evenly, then top with cheese.
*Make sure not to center load the pizza. Pizza's cook from the outside in so you don't want to much in the center.

Bake at 425 for 20mins or pizza is golden brown.







The most awesomest Christmas Site yet!

 At mops today our coordinator told us about Portable North Pole, its a site where you enter your kiddos info and Santa sends them a video email back. I may have teared up watching the magic in Everett's eyes as he watched. He would talk to Santa like he could hear him and told Cody when he got home that he Skyped with Santa. I love love love this time of year! the website is www.portablenorthpole.tv

Again with debating our Christmas cards. I have a billion pics of Everett and Easton but not so many of Everett just smiling by himself. That was are mission today...I donno if we were successful.

 

He Reminds me of when he was younger here!

My golmer!

Mom, I'm sick of this!

See why he has a bunch of pictures with his siblings...he's so much more natural with them :)

OKAY GO MAKE YOUR VIDEO NOW!!

Look Mom, no hands!

Lunch Date

Emma had a little play date with her friend since birth, Ambree.  We thought we would spice it up a bit and go to the New Hampton McDonald's Play Place.

 Who doesn't love a happy meal?

 I realized when setting up Everett's play date for Friday that Emma never gets play dates with her friends, so she was very excited to bring Ambree with us. They jabbered in the back seat the whole way to McDonald's.

 Look at Emma's long legs we all know she didn't get that from me!

One final photo with Ronald.

Decorating Our Tree

 We decorated our Christmas tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving I just haven't posted pictures yet.

 We blared some Carebears Christmas music and Cody unwrapped all the ornaments.

 We had some special helpers over for supper so the supervised the tree decorating :)

(Cody's sister Brandee and Bf Mike)

 I guess we were boring to Easton, he slept the whole time.

 My three LOVES!!!

I am happy to admit that I wrapped the kiddos presents today and even though I'm still paranoid (see previous post) they are under our tree.

Were you one of those kids?

Ya'know one of those kids that ruined Christmas for their mom and OPENED their presents before Christmas? I may have been one of those kids. And because I may have been one of those kids I am paranoid that my kiddos Emma will open her presents and seeing as she can't read who knows what gift she would open. And since I'm paranoid about it I wrapped all the presents and put them upstairs in my room. This didn't make my kiddos very happy so I toyed around with wrapping fake presents on a trial bases (if they left them alone I would bring out the real ones) But the thought of wrapping gifts for no reason didn't sound fun. So my new plan was to wrap a book for the 25 days to Christmas. You could buy new books but since I'm cheap we wrapped ones we already had. I debated getting some from the library but I thought they would want to keep them.

This is what you need...

 Wrapping paper, tape, scissors, a marker or tag, books and a cute little helper.

 I put whatever number it was, that many times on the package so they could count it:)

This is when I lost my little helper. Honestly I didn't want him to see all the books I picked anyways :)

Ta Dah! I alternated a non Christmas book and Christmas books since I didn't have enough just Christmas. And I of course ended with Twas The Night Before Christmas.