why I am having more kids

Could I love these two doll babies any more?? Soon and very soon I will have another little love to kiss and play with....I cannot wait!!

Christmas Cookies with the Elves:)

Christmas gives one so many excuses to make delicious treats!! I am never one to pass up on a chance to make a treat-and neither are these two little elves of mine;) Here are a few shots of us making some cookies.

this is the kind of mood they were in the whole time:)

workin the KitcheAid

being insane

my elves:)

frosting with focus

it is hard to frost without your eyes open-just ask him

making clear which one he wanted to eat!

**Isabelle does own clothing besides her Tinkerbelle pjs and her pink ballet dress-however she rarely wants to wear it. The compromise is she can wear those at home but when we go out she wears real clothing....so please excuse her same outfit in every single post. :)**

evenings

I love when the evenings come. I don't even mind that it gets dark early around here because then it just feels like evenings are luxuriously longer. I love sitting and cuddling, crocheting, sitting by the fire, watching some shows with Nate on Hulu, sipping tea or peppermint hot chocolate. Evenings. I am thankful to God for evenings.

Gingerbread Men and Decorating the Tree

 It is a yearly tradition for me to make gingerbread men with Isabelle. I can remember so clearly her sitting in her bouncy chair when she was just a few months old while we started our now 4 year tradition...we blasted Christmas music and went to town. I love traditions! Here are a few shots of this year's gingerbread men (which Isabelle was not as crazy about as Judah-who knew?)

The day after Thanksgiving we decorated the Christmas tree-it was such a fun morning. Everyone in their jammies, Christmas music blasting, and the kids having free reign to decorate.....really...really what is not to love about this time of year??!!

Win some lose some

I really enjoy making food-and making it from scratch as much as I am able.  Some meals are hits, some are misses. The other night we decided to make ravioli. We love pasta in this house (insanely love) and figured how hard could it be? Well it was hard. We failed. (thick-much too thick pasta) We tried again...and kinda failed again (who knew I HATED Italian parsley so much, and when you hate the filling it is hard to enjoy the rest)....it was slightly better than the first time, but not enough that we were proud of ourselves. Oh well. I still love making food-and sometimes I don't fail. :) Like the time I made PF Chang's Spicy Chicken.....

the masters at work

yes-Judah is always my goofball:)

PF Chang's Spicy Chicken and Rice...so good.

 What have you been making lately??