Santa's Cookies

Just wanted to add a pic of Santa's cookies.

Reindeer Food

My friend Jan sent Emily a baggie of reindeer food. Emily loved this idea and had a blast sprinkling it all over the driveway.









Thanks Jan!! Great idea!!!! :)

Christmas Eve at Our House

Mom's side of the family came over tonight for Christmas. I think Emily was well pleased with all her gifts! Here are just a few shots of what she got from everyone.

Cookies For Santa

Emily saw the commercial where the dad and son make sugar cookies for Santa. Emily had to make some, too. When we bought the cookie mix, we picked up chocolate chip. "NO!!" She said. "Not that one." So, we tried oatmeal raisin. Nope, that wasn't it either. It HAD to be SUGAR COOKIES! Not just plain sugar cookies but with SPRINKLES!









Isn't she talented? :) Well, she did have SOME help! Ok, a LOT of help. We have four cookies saved for Santa. I'm not sure how much longer the others will make it!

Merry Christmas!

A Rite of Passage

A mother's instinct is to know when it is too quiet then you need to check on them. You find either a sleeping babe or a child in trouble. This time it was trouble.

Well, Emily did it. She cut her own hair. Thank goodness it isn't that bad or noticeable. She got her bangs a little bit it can be brushed over and hidden. Then there is a place on top of her head that really isn't that badly noticeable either. Looks sorta like her hair is just broken off by ponytail holders or something.

I don't know where she found the scissors. They were small and black handled. No CLUE! The others are accounted for. So, it blew my mind to see her with a pair in her hands and hear that sound of cutting hair as I yelled "NO!!!!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!!!!!" I think I scared the crap out of her.

Here is the place in her bangs.



Now, THIS is what you want to find when they get quiet.

We can Disco, too!!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The Bush Family Elves

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

We were elfed!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Animoto Christmas

Santa Slide Show

Christmas is in the Air

We've been picking pecans and I've been baking!

I have a wonderful pecan pie recipe I got from a friend who is no longer with us. I did a little tweaking to Barbara's recipe. It it yummy!

1/2 c. melted butter or marg.
1 c. pecans chopped
1 c. light brown sugar
1/2 c. sugar or Splenda
1 heaping Tbsp flour
2 eggs
1/8 c. syrup (Log Cabin Sugar Free does well!)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 unbaked pie crust

Combine all ingredients well and pour into pie crust. Cover crust edge with foil to keep from burning. Bake for 35 minutes at 350. Decrease temp to 250, take foil of the edges and bake for 30 more minutes. YUM!

I've also been making Toast Rosemary Pecans

4 c. pecan halves
4 Tbsp. butter melted
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 teaspoon dried rosemary lightly crushed
1/2 teaspoon sugar or splenda

Preheat oven to 250. Bake for 15 minutes on a cookie sheet with edges. Stir them up and back for 15 minutes more. Transfer to papertowel and let cool. YUM!

Oh Nascar Tree, Oh Nascar Tree...

Norm got his NASCAR/Jeff Gordon tree put up with some help from Emily.

Elmo Christmas Collage

We got Elmo put on the front porch today. I took some pics of Emily with Elmo and she had to take a picture of me and Elmo, too. Yes, the pic of Elmo and me was taken by Emily! I put the camera on a short column I have on the porch. All she had to do was keep the camera on me and shoot. I think she did a pretty good job for a 2 1/2 year old!
This is a collage I made for my siggy on a few message boards I am on.



Just a flashback to last Christmas with Emily and Elmo.

My Tree

I finally got around to putting my tree up. I just realized I didn't put my pink silk roses on it. Oh well. Here's a pic of it.



Merry Christmas!

Alphabet Adventure

Here are some of the items that I will be getting with the grant money I won. I know the students will LOVE all of this. I know I will! All of the items are coming from LAKESHORE LEARNING. I LOVE that company!!!!

Literacy Chest - this is being bought with the extra money from winning the bigger grant.


Here are the original items I wrote the grant for.










In the last pic I'm not getting all of those games. I'm just getting two of them. They didn't have pics of just the two.