Mrs. Moore with Paige, Elise and Ella. I love this lady!
The first graders all met in the cafeteria to make ginger bread houses. The kids had a blast and I think they ate at least half of the candy. I saw so many kids just eating huge dollops of frosting.. and lots of sticky fingers! It was fun.
My good friend Jescica Freundl and her daughter Natalie.
Caroline and Ella Murphy
Elise's classmate Payton- such a sweet kiddo.
Dave and Sam Gourley
The finished project.
Horizon had an all-school sing-a-long before they made the ginger bread houses and the teachers surprised the kids with this flash mob dance. It was great and the kids went WILD as you can hear! The Principal is Mr. Salmon and he is the one in front on the elf suit.
We went up to Minnesota for our family Christmas. We had our annual Christmas party at my aunt Louise's house in Victoria, MN.
Christmas ornaments from Aunt Mollie... a yearly tradition.
Dad had to try on the Hello Kitty headband!
Lauren is working on her new glow book!
We tried to fancy it up a bit with hot rollers... our first attempt, turned out super cute!
Grandma and Grandpa Divine
Matt, Mollie and Charlie, he had the cutest suspenders on!
It's hard to get a photo with all of the kids... Anthony would have no part of it so we took it without him.
Alexis and Logan Mann, Kaylee Barsness and the Divine kiddos.
Grandma bought all of the kids recorders but Charlie got Moraccas... wish we would've got those.. they are SOOO much quieter!
I had to put these extra photos in because Eric kept trying to hide behind me, we realized that he wore the same shirt last year and it didn't want anyone to really be able to see it in the photo... silly man!
Dave and Louise Barsness, Marcus, Sarah, Kaylee and Anthony Foster, Joe and Melissa Barsness
Kevin, Jenny, Alexis and Logan Mann
This is a great video of Dad and Lauren playing Operation!
You can get a sense of just how "quiet" it is at Louise's house!
I love this video because Charlie would hand Eric a Moracca and Eric would hand it back and then Charlie would hand him another one, and Eric would hand it back... and so on.
Another hand off to Eric!
This is hilarious- Charlie does this funny walk and it makes me laugh every time.... I love this kid!
One of Eric's favorites... Peanut Butter Star Cookies
First time making Macaroons... just so-so!
A new one for me, Chocolate Crinkles... Eric loves these, nice an soft!
Of course I had to make sugar cookies, but I was lazy and made cirlces instead of cut-outs, I just didn't have it in me this year... they are still yummy!
These are my newest cookie and they are SOOOO yummy. They are White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread cookies... scrumptious!!
Plenty extra for when I need my next chocolate fix!
These were my FLOP cookies this year. It was a new recipe made with cookie dough, and you knead in crushed pretzels, make into balls and put in mini-muffin tins, then add chocolate chips and caramel bits... they turned out horrible, the dough seemed dry and I sprayed the pan like it said but only the top halves would come out of the tin..... bummer, you are supposed to dip the tops in chocolate but these are just going in the trash....
I did make Cashew cookies and Dipped Pretzels, just forgot the photos, I still have to make Maple Fudge and Peanut Butter Fudge... THEN I will be done!
Now I get to package these all up and give them to my awesome neighbors before I eat them all!
