Merry Christmas!!!

We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve opening one present... (PJ's)

Christmas Morning before opening presents...
We were thrilled that the kids didn't wake up until 6:30ish... Savannah was the last one awake at 10 to 7:00. We all sat on Mom's bed and read the Christmas story (Luke 2) then it was time for the presents.

We made an orange roll wreath for breakfast!

Santa must have found this hat in the back of his closet... I am surprised he could even put it in his bag after the cougs lost so bad the other night.

The kids got swing seats under the tree, when we went out to put them on the old swing set we found that Santa had his elves build a new one!!! Miles is enjoying it already.

Trivia Tuesday Answers

What is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time? White Christmas.
In the song "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" what did Grandma go to get? Her medication.
How many pipers piping did my true love give to me? 11 Pipers.
When did the first Christmas celebrations happen? In the fourth century.
Who wrote A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens.

Mom wins.
I just wonder about the rest of you that read the trivia but didn't guess.... hummmm chicken!!

Trivia Tuesday!!

We have decided to start a new feature called Trivia Tuesday! Every Tuesday we will post fun trivia questions or a word of the day. It should be fun and we would love to see who can guess correctly.

This week of course it's....

CHRISTMAS TRIVIA
What is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time?
In the song "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" what did Grandma go to get?
How many pipers piping did my true love give to me?
When did the first Christmas celebrations happen?
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Merry Christmas!!!

Scott's new blog

Jane will no longer have my wild and crazy political posts to interrupt our family fun blog...

I have started a new blog for my crazy rants and wild thoughts about politics, the constitution and the market . Your welcome to peak in but beware....."You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Cheats, Liars and Thieves

Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread

We took our favorite bread dough and cut it up into a pull-apart loaf... add cinnamon and sugar... bake for 30 minutes and pour a cold glass of milk!

REALLY GOOD!!!!

1st Big Snow!!

We had a killer snow storm over the past 48 hours..... The kids had a great time playing and Miles is getting pretty good and shoveling the walks! Along with the snow came the COLD!!!
I am not a fan of the cold.... One thing that I really don't like about Idaho (Utah isn't much better).... it's stinkin' cold....
In a perfect world we would spend winter someplace warm. :)

Live United Commercial

National Cookie Day...

December 4th is National Cookie Day....so tonight we are going to make cookies....
I just don't know what kind to make. Any ideas?

Update....Grandma Harmon's Carrot Cookies w/ Orange glaze.
Scott grew up eating these every Thanksgiving or any other dinner at Grandma Harmon's.
Yummmm!

Deck the halls......

Tonight we decorated the house.... The kids have been asking to do it for a week. It's been crazy around here and we haven't had time but tonight we got festive.

We also made muffins... just a few.... (130 to be exact). These are meant to be consumed by our home and visiting teaching families. Eat up!!

The kids were so excited to finally have all the decorations up. It really was a fun night. It's even better now that the kids are in bed and the house is dead quiet. ahhhhhh......peace on earth.....

Sconefest 2008

Our 1st annual Sconefest was a huge success!!! It was great to see so many of our friends, family and neighbors!! We do have some ideas to make it better next year (Monday, November 30, 2009).

We hope you had a great time and ate enough scones. We were so busy cooking/visiting we forgot to take pictures of all the fun!!!

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Season!!!