Dad and cookies....

I saved too much stuff for the last minute before Christmas, so Dad stepped in to help the girls make sugar cookies for Santa. The girls had a fun time making cookies with their daddy.

Hot chocolate anyone????

It is VERY dangerous to make hot chocolate with a 2 year old hanging around.

I love hot chocolate from the blender. It is frothy and yummy. I was mixing some up one day. I had just added some more hot chocolate mix and turned to throw the bag away. Just as I turned back from the garbage can my 2 year old turned on the blender. Hot chocolate flew everywhere!!! It covered my entire kitchen....my dish washer, my oven, my fridge. It completely cleared the island. A ten foot diameter circle of hot chocolate spread all over the kitchen. I spent 30 minutes just cleaning up. And today, I noticed I missed a cabinet. We were all standing around it when it happened. My 6 year old was the only one who didn't have to change all of her clothing. What a mess!

Sniffin' spices....

My girls love to get into my spices and smell all the different kinds. One day little K got into them when I was making something else. She opened the cream of tartar and instead of smelled I think she blew into it and a puff of powder covered her nose. I don't know what she was eating for lunch that day, but it must have been messy!

Family dress up time...

My girls love to play dress up. They especially love to dress up their daddy.

He is a pretty good sport!

What started out as dressing up dad, turned into dressing up the whole family.

We got these crazy wigs on clearance after Halloween. They are insanely messy. We have hair everywhere!

M was taking all the pictures. We were all laughing our heads off at our fabulousness!

Dad and his trains....

My hubby has a 1983 A-Team train set. Once every 5 years or so he breaks it out to play with the kids. The girls always have fun playing with it and listening to their daddy tell stories about playing with it when he was a boy.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

First Dad and the girls set up the tree. The girls help fluff all the branches and dad puts on the lights. Then Mom steps in to do the decorating. This arrangement works out really well. I hate putting the lights on. I added the ribbon.

Then the girls helped put on all the ornaments.

It is fun to watch it get prettier and prettier.
And of course, by the time it is all done I am too exhausted and forget to take a picture of the finished tree. It has been pretty much the same for the last few years. We decided that next year we are going to do something different on the tree.

Thanksgiving 2009

We had my hubby's whole family over for Thanksgiving this year. 34 people! We were packed in pretty tight, but we had lots of fun.

Here is Grandma R helping out in the kitchen.

We had lots of yummy food. Especially the pies! I could just skip all the other stuff and go straight for the pies! I made a chocolate pecan, 2 pumpkins, an apple, a cheesecake, and a chocolate cream this year.

We played the spray bottle game:

Poor hubby always gets stuck in the corner ever year removing the meat off the turkey.
I think everyone had a good time and enjoyed the delicious food.