Cookie Central

We made Christmas cookies Tuesday night before Christmas and boy was it an adventure. After we got the prepackaged dough out I realized that i had everything except for cutters!! :- It was interesting. We used skewers to cut out our shapes... which didn't work out very well but we made due!

Who wants to help clean up this mess??

Kali liked that I had a bowl of flour on the table!

She also LOVED using the rolling pin! Poor Nathan.. he made the perfect pac-man and she flattened it right away!! :-)

Kimberly was soooo careful with shaping her cookies.

Kali not so much...

Nathan took the little bit of everything approach.

And then we named it the "Sugar Turd!"

She was so proud of her cookies. She did a great job!!

Kali wanted to lick all of the icing off of Santa's face! Funny girl!

Snow Angel...

A couple of years ago I dared Nathan to run out into the snow without a shirt and do a snow angel! It was his time again!! What a good sport...

How much is that Kitty in the Christmas tree??

This year Kitty was obsessed with actually climbing up into the tree. Can you spot her??

Luckily the tree never did fall down!

Party Girl!!

Kali and I went to Adrienne and Brent's wedding last weekend. It was BEAUTIFUL! She was a stunning bride and he was so handsome and glowing when he saw his new wife. We wish them nothing but happiness!

The ceremony was beautiful and for the most part Kali was quiet.

After eating some good grub Kali was ready for cake! The only problem was that they hadn't cut the cake yet. Kai threatened to stick her finger in the cake when Brent offered up the slice that he had just cut. That's right, they were at the head table eating cake before everyone else. I guess that's a perk to it being YOUR wedding! Anyhow, Brent had taken one bit of cake and then offered it up to Kali. SO here she is sitting on the floor chowing down on her cake! Thanks guys so much... it really made her day!!
She did leave me one or two bites and I have to say that it was AMAZING!!

Kali was so sweet when it came time to say goodbye to Adrienne. She gave her a big kiss on the cheek and this big hug! What a big girl!!

On the way to the car Kali found this huge leaf... she thought she was big time! It's bigger than her head.

Splish Splash!

Little Pee-wee was taking a bath the other morning and I couldn't figure out why she was screaming... well here it is. She can entertain herself with just about anything these days. She was looking in the shower mirror and screaming at her reflection. Crazy kid!

Dancing Diva

Mike is very proud to know that Kali loves rock music! I finally captured her little dancing feet... and her droopy diaper!! Enjoy.

Gingerbread... er graham cracker... houses '08!

We attempted to make our version of gingerbread houses with graham crackers this weekend. Mike does not have a house represented because it is still under construction. Being as he draws house plans for a living you can expect a pretty extravagant house when it's all said and done! Until then here are three exciting houses to entertain you all!

Kimberly and Destiny made this work of art! They decided that a flat roof was more sturdy? Um do you notice that the entire right side is collapsed?? I think that they may rethink that idea next year??!!

This is Nathan's house. He went for the barn look. He says that the candy on top is similar to the Plaza Lights! I like the element of the open barn door!

Here is the house that Kali and I constructed! It's kind of bare because she started to
throw a fit and we didn't get o finish. Oh well! Check out my mailbox!! :-)

Silly Kitty!!

Kitty loves to get into small spaces! This bin was on the floor in our bedroom with an old backpack in it... random yes I know... and low and behold we found her sleeping in it! I heard Coco whining standing outside of the bin! She LOVES to torture Coco!!

Time to decorate for Christmas!

We put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving and it was fun! We got a new 9 foot tree this year and I found that I almost didn't have enough decorations for it!

I'm having a hard time keeping that darn star straight on the top of the tree!

Here's the three little Foley's... Kali, Kimberly, and cousin Kaelyn. This is a classic Foley Christmas time picture. Aren't they cute??!!

Winter Wonderland!?

Last weekend we got a package in the mail that was full of packing peanuts. As a diversionary measure to get out of the door without Kali I settled her in our room with the box. Mike soon called me on my cell phone thanking me for sharing the packing peanuts with her. Of course I told him he HAD to document the fun!! I guess she was treating the foam peanuts like they were snow flakes! What and imagination!!

This is the aftermath of our bedroom! Kimberly was a champ and helped clean them up... after she herself tried to make a snow-angel! Too bad I didn't get a picture of that one!! :-)