Christmas 2009

Frances had a Christmas program as school. This picture is typical of her interest but she did know all the words!She did a pretty good job overall but sings with much more gusto at home.We opened our presents from each other before leaving for the holidays. Frances loved Delaneys set of Disney Princesses!Delaney seems to love Frances' T-Ball set!Then it was off the to the good old midwest. Where there was lots of snow and even colder temps. I ended up with dead batteries in my camera so there were not any pictures this year. Aunt Trish took this one of Delaney on Christmas day.And this one of the girls most true relationship. This is how you will most often see my girls looking lately if they are near each other. They do have moments where they play very well but it is usually Frances intruding on Delaney's space and Delaney making some disgusted face and sound. Since I didn't get any good pictures of them in their matching outfits from Santa we had to wear them again and pose once we returned home.

Just couldn't pass up posting this one!!! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a great start to a Happy New Year!!!!

new year...new do

This is what her hair looked like most days for the past three years. TaaaDaaa!!!!
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What a doll!

recipe request

I am often asked for the recipe for my chocolate kiss cookies as well as my banana bread. I have to give credit to my mom as they are both from her. Here they are...

Peanut Blossoms (aka kiss cookies)
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter (I use blue bonnet stick margarine)
1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky work)
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking soda
chocolate kisses

Cream butter, sugars and peanut butter. Beat in eggs, milk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Chill. roll in balls and roll in sugar (I use my cookie scoop). Bake at 350 for about 8 minutes. (I take out when still slightly doughy looking as they set a little more while cooling) Press kiss in cookie while still warm.


Banana Bread
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp soda
1/3 tsp salt
1 tbls Milk
3-4 bananas
2 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

bake at 350 large loaves about 45-60 minutes, small loaves about 30 minutes.

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frances is Five!!!!!

Frances had some friends over one afternoon for her birthday. The party theme was unicorn/pony. It was a great time!

I splurged and got her the big fancy balloon!We played put the tail on the Unicorn.Checking out the cupcakes.Being sung to.Yummy!Dilly Bars!!!!!

The pinataPresents!!!The silly glasses from the goody bag!

December so far

Playing dolls with Grandma's doll bed (made for her by her father)

helping cook

cleaning

Delaney's first time painting.

Delaney and I are doing a swim class together. It is sooooo much fun!

Being silly

Being cute

November 09

Time to play catch...catch up that is:) Here is what we have been up to in the month of November.

Playing with our newest little guy. He is now 5 1/2 months and has been with us for one month.
Growing weird things in the backyard. Not sure what this is but it was rather interesting to find it on a randomly warm day in November.
Being messy. Thanks for the cupcakes Marcie!
Being cute on Thanksgiving.
Trying out pigtails! Still loving the paci and all three blankies. And of course...playing in the leaves!!!

Halloween 2009

Halloween was good. Check out the pretty moon! Frances was a beautiful Snow White and Delaney was a Butterfly. Frances had a fever so we just sat on the front porch and passed out candy. The girls really enjoy doing that every year. We usually have friends over to help but didn't want to share our fever. I did take the girls for a very short walk to a few houses so they could get their "own" candy. One of the things we passed out was halloween pencils. It was fun to see how many of the kids were genuinely excited about a pencil! Such fun!

And what is more halloween like than spiders...here are my girls playing with a spider that their daddy was suppose to squish. It was on the ceiling and he decided to catch it and let the girls play with it!!!