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Friday, December 9, 2011

Car Wash 2

Having a moon roof / sun roof combo is a pretty sweet deal at the car wash.

At the car wash

I love her "put up your dukes" pose while looking suspiciously over her shoulder.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

A few weeks ago I was making our bed when Molly walked in. She asked me if I was making our bed all pretty and I told her that I was. Then she asked if she could make HER bed all pretty and ran off to do just that. Now it's part of her daily routine. It's not always the neatest job, but hey... she took initiative. I have to give her credit for that.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Tree is up!

"Christmas is here!" (According to Molly)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Awwww moment of the day...

Today while Molly was at school I pulled down all of the xmas decorations from the attic. When we got home she was very excited and kept asking when Christmas would be here. Then I opened up the box that our tree is stored in. Molly let out a content little sigh and quietly said, "Christmas."

Quote of the day

When Molly was getting out of the backseat of my car she grabbed on to the handle above the door and swung out. Then she said, "I'm swinging like a crack monkey."

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Cookie Exchange

I have only been to one cookie exchange before (thanks Corey!), but it was definitely something I wanted to host. Last year the holidaze were upon us before I thought to plan one and then everyone's schedule was too crazy busy to fit one in. This year I wanted to get it on everyone's calendar before Thanksgiving when everyone's schedules go nuts through the end of the year. We planned it for the Sunday before Thanksgiving and I had 7 people RSVP with a commitment to baking cookies. All 7 showed up so there were PLENTY of cookies to pass around. Everyone brought a half a dozen per person with another half dozen to share/sample. So that also meant you were taking HOME that many cookies. Everyone that committed to making cookies showed up and arrived with quite the assortment.

I had every intention of baking early. Then we had a power outage Friday night that zapped all motivation once the lights finally came back on. A work party at Molly's school on Saturday plus forgetting to put out the butter pushed my baking until Sunday morning. Yes, THE day of the actual cookie exchange. I had wanted to bake a new recipe, but I lost confidence once I realized each batch would only make a dozen cookies (actually around 15). So I made two batches of the Lemon Butter Cookies and then switched over to my old standby of Reese's Chewy Chocolate Cookies which yield almost 5 dozen cookies. So, people took home a few of the Lemon Butter cookies and 8-10 of the Reese's. (Note - The Lemon Butter Cookies turned out great and I will definitely be making them again soon).

Top left tin - Noel Nut Balls (Corey)
Top right tin - Ginger Cookies (family recipe, Corey)
Center tupperware - Mocha Slice Cookies (Amy)
Bottom right - Reese's Chewy Chocolate Cookies (me)
Holiday Bags - Vermont Maple Pecan Cookies (Lucille)
Bottom left tin - Rocky Road and Cranberry bark (Corey)