All that jazz

I'm at a jazz festival /
Competition where my nephew is competing in two events. I'm so proud if him.




Playing it cool before performance. Go Jamin!

Cookies for Santa

I'm way behind on my holiday posts. I resolve in 2010 to keep up the blog, I've gotten a couple of complaints that my posts are few and far between.

Christmas Eve evening is typically spent at my moms house And we don't usually return until the wee hours of Xmas morning.




Before we left for candlight sevi e at church Lauren and I made and decorated sugar cookies for Santa. We had green and red sparkly sugar and some Xmas tree sprinkles, most of which ended up in Lauren's mouth.




We set a few cookies and a cup
of milk on our chalkboard tv tray. I totally forgot a out leaving food out for the reindeer. Sorry guys, I'll remember next year!

Finding Nemodory

Say hello to the newest member of our family! Lauren loves her new pet! She says "goo-night" to her(him?) every night. We put a stepstool in front of the counter where the tanks sits so Lauren can reach up and gaze lovingly at her new best friend.

Bedtime stories

Reading with uncle Chris

Marsha Marsha Marsha

I just made some marshmallows. They're so good I wanna wake Peter and Lauren up right now am say " OMG you have to taste this!!!

They are sound asleep and I'm enjoying a cup of hot cocoa topped with homemeade marshmallow goodness. You snooze you lose!


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Wrapping Presents

I love prettily wrapped gifts! Lauren and I wanted to personalize some gifts for her friends. If the presents are going under the tree, I don't usually use a lot of bows or embellishments, they just get crushed. Instead, we stamped each kid's name all over the front of their package. I like.


Lauren loved the stamping part..we use acrylic stamps and you just apply the letters to it. An easy way to personalize a generic gift box.

Chuck E's House

Lauren attended her first Chuck E. Cheese Birthday party. I normally avoid that place, but couldn't miss out on celebrating miss Mia's birthday.

Lauren loved the games

Loved getting the tickets (didn't you used to LOOVE that when you were a kid?)

LOVED the cupcakes...

But didn't love Chuck E.