Cookie Party

Every year my mother's grandchildren gather at my house to roll out, bake, frost, decorate, lick their fingers, and eat pizza.  It's an event that I look forward to every year when we all gather and enjoy CHAOS!  But, it really is an enjoyable chaos.  There's always one kid that seems to enjoy the cookie party more than any other, and that's our Kylee.  She is a little Martha Stewart.  I hope she never looses her love of baking because it's so darn cute.  She'd roll, and cut, and roll, and cut, and Rick would stand by the oven alternating batches in, and batches out. At one point Kylee looked over at me and said, "I could make a million cookies."  And according to Rick, she did.

Kylee (my sister Star's daughter)

And after she baked, she frosted and decorated.  She is an awesome decorator.  She worked so hard, and finally she looked and me and said, "Man those look so delicious.  Could I eat this one?  I made it."  And I said, "Kylee, you can eat any cookie you'd like.  After all, you made almost all of them."  It was so darn cute.  I wish I could freeze her at this age forever.

Little Rylie kept everyone busy, especially my mom. She really enjoyed eating the cookie dough. Grandpa had to take it away so she wouldn't get sick.

Grandma had to hold her most of the time after that because she was so fussy.

But, she did frost a cookie too.

Bowen has quite a cookie decorating talent.  He's very artistic. He promised to bring his violin next year and play some Christmas music for us, and I'm holding him to it.

 Bowen (my sister Kristi's son)

Channy baked all day long with me.  She even made some of the cookie dough.  She loved having her grandpa here.She made a Dallas Cowboy cookie.

Chantel

Grandpa Dorman

Corbin and Challis made very few cookies, but we were glad they came to hang out.

 Corbin

Challis

Kristi and Anson were at the party also.  We are always happy for them to come and bake with us.

Anson and Kristi

In the end we have yummy Christmas cookies that I will eat for the next 5 days straight, and then run off for the next 3 months.  Seems worth it at the moment, but not so much in January. :)

Rick and I enjoy it most after all the flour is off the floor and the frosting is off the chairs and we can reflect back on our memories.

We wish you ALL a Very Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Dinner

The kids begged to stay home for Thanksgiving this year. So, I had to cook....Cooking sucks. It's only the second time I've had to do the whole thing by myself, but they were all happy not to be drug around to relatives houses. So, I guess it was all worth it in the end. All the food turned out too...that's a plus. We had Chantel's friend Montana over for dinner. She's a darling girl and we are always happy to have her here.

Next year, we're goin' somewhere else.  Who wants to cook?

I do have a great husband though.  He always does dishes.  Gotta love him for that.  :)

Turkey Leg Run - Farmington

Wooohoo!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Hope you all have a wonderful day and all the food is good. We are just hanging out watching football and playing XBox with the kids.  I did run a race this morning.  Had to work off some of the food before I ate it.  It was a really fun race.  I ran it with some really great people that I just love to death.  It was a hard race with a lot of up hill, so I'm happy with my time. 23:29.

Love to all the family we'll give you a call later.

Me, Loisanne, Heidi, Heather, Angela, Russ

Syracuse Football

Well, the Syracuse Football season has come to an end.  Their record for the year was 9-3.  Not bad.  They lost in the playoffs, but we sure had a great time cheering them on, and before you know it....Corbin's senior season will be here.

Corbin

Oh, where oh where has the time gone.

There was a little girl,

Who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very good indeed,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's a poem that my mother and my grandmother used to say to me all the time as a little girl.  But, the truth is, it fit's Channy pretty well.

My baby turned 13 today.  No more little ones around the house...Just teenagers....All 3 of them.  I was looking through old photographs of Channy today, and of course it brought tears to my eyes to see how fast the time has gone.  She was my sweet little girl I dressed in pretty little outfits.  Then she was my little tom-boy that dressed in her brothers old clothes, and refused to wear dresses anymore.  The tides have changed once more, and fashion reigns the day. Today she begged to wear the new clothes she knew I'd bought her....After all girl's got to look pretty....especially a teenage girl.

Fall Family Pics

Today I took some fall pictures of the family. Let me tell you it was no small job. No one likes their picture taken...what's that all about??? But, this is what I got for my efforts.