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Christmas Fun

When it's just the 4 of us for holidays we don't go all out for dinner...too much work! Michael's request was fried chicken so he fried up some chicken. I made "Cowboy Slaw", corn on the cob, and two pies...Kentucky Pie and Brown Granny's Caramel Pie. You should all be jealous of our pies! Michael just had to have a picture of the chicked he fried! I poured the oil in the frier and turned it on but Michael did EVERYTHING else after that but somehow I still smelled like fried food when it was all done! Ben enjoying the sheep from the Little People Farm mommy and daddy got him.

Santa brought both kids the wagon and Amelia got a "treaure chest" (her words) full of princess dress-up clothes. She LOVES it. This morning she asked Michael if he wanted to be a king!

Christmas Day 2009

I'm too lazy to rearrange these pictures right now! Thank you blogger for making this difficult. They are in reverse order!

Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Cookies!

It's a short lived tradition (started last year) but each year I made Christmas cookies with Amelia. This year she was introduced to gingerbread men at school and when I asked her if she wanted to make cookies with me she asked if we could make gingerbread men. I found a recipe, bought the cookie cutters, and we gave it a shot. For gingerbread they were pretty good but we've discovered our little family doesn't care too much for gingerbread! Next year we'll make gingerbread men out of sugar cookie dough!

Singing!

Winter Fun!

Okay, no offense to the past but I'm not sure I'm ever going to finish updating with Oklahoma pictures and happenings! SOOO...I'm going to skip ahead to more recent happenings. Here are a few pictures of them dressed up for church and playing in the snow. For the last 5 days we've had pretty dense fog up here and it creates an "ice fog" on everything. It's kind of like the effect of an ice storm except it's snow instead of ice.

OH, and Julie, why didn't you tell me how hard it would be to wrestle a 9 month old into a button-up shirt and a tie!!!