Wordless Wednesday 12-9-10

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All I want for Christmas is....

I love receiving my kids' Christmas lists.  From detailed and organized from my oldest daughter, to illustrated and spanning over several pages from my youngest (several pages because she writes big and draws everything, not because she is greedy), the lists are always a little slice of my kids' personalities that make me smile. 

For example, my oldest, my one and only, handsomest-young-man-you-ever-did-see son can never think of anything he wants to put on a list, so usually I don't get one from him.  But the one year he did give me one, it read a little something like this: 

1. a poster for my room
2. a cd
3. a dvd
4. anything else you might like to get me

He has always had such simple wants.  He asks for nothing.  Even when he should. 

See?  Handsomest young man you ever did see.  =)

Anyways, as this year is one of those years where money is an issue and every purchase needs to be considered carefully,

I have a Christmas wish list which I do not expect to be filled.  I would rather we spent that on gifts for the children, and creating memories as a family.

BUT, if I were to make a list.... it may or may not include the following items...

In no particular order:

ya, that's right a cast iron frying pan.  I don't have one.

Cuisinart hand blender - mine is dying.

A belly dance costume.  OOhhhh sparkly!

I think I may have mentioned these before.  =)

any of Ina Garten's cook books - she rocks!

A kitchen torch and creme brulee dishes

Le Crueset Oval 6 quart french oven.....

Greece.

All I really want for Christmas is my family to be healthy, safe and content.
Amen.

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Gingerbread House

No I don't make my own gingerbread.  I really do not like working with gingerbread.  So, I admit, I bought a kit.  The house pieces are already made, and it comes with icing mix (horrible!) and candy.  We went shopping and the girls picked out some candies they would like to include. 

I started by making a rice krispie snack base.  Which I spread out on some strong cardboard covered with tinfoil.  I then made the gross icing mix and assembled the house.  Once it was set, I made a batch of my own decorators icing and piped on some details.  We allowed that to set and then the girls went to work!

They carefully considered each and every candy they placed on the house.  Vicki had chosen gummy worms for her candy.  She tried endlessly to convince us all that the worms should be all over the house.  We were not convinced.

I particularly like the way they did the roof!

Then once they finished decorating the house itself, they went to working on the "yard".  Now Vicki was very excited because she could now put her gummy worms in the yard. 

Because Samm is a girl whose heart is overflowing with love, she had to include a heart.

The path through the yard was my lone contribution to the yard. 

I just love the little "pebbles"!

And ....... VOILA!



Two very happy campers and one pretty darn cool gingerbread house!

Wordless Wednesday 12-01-10

Darin brought home this snake he found on a jobsite.  The girls were quite thrilled with it.

I love Vicki's marker stained, raggedy finger nailed hands. 



Nothing brings sisters together like a snake. 

(It was spirit day at school that day, and Vicki is sporting school colors. 

She doesnt usually dress like that.)

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