December 20th

Today I am thankful for a fun day of running Christmas errands ALONE -got the stocking goodies, my fave, getting a haircut (nothing to post a pic about, just a little trimmed up and THE eyebrows!!), just chilling around the house, and making some Christmas goodies. I DID drag my camera around with me all day to document, however, not having a memory card in the camera posed a small problem. Oh well, I went places ALONE!! that's the key. Oh and I am also thankful I married someone with better cooking skills than me. I finally got around to making the chocolate pretzels like Kristin, and Shelley, and Heather (who made them but never posted, in fact hasn't posted since Nov 21st - AHEM!!)... however *I* managed to be the only one who had to call for help!! Go figure - I seriously need help in the kitchen. What I learned was that you CAN cook them in the oven too long and therefore the chocolate gets harder as you go along.. not cool! Heather enjoyed my stupidity though. :) I decided that I would go for a different pic since this was the process I struggled with the most.

Cade helped with this project, but not the next.

I also made Bisquick Sausage balls (that I DID NOT screw up thank you very much!!)

and they were mighty tasty not great looking though! Cory helped with this one.

While the sausage balls were baking we had a rousing game of Candy Land. I bought it today since it went along with our theme book from last weekand the poor kid is 5 years old and has never played - such a shame!

Oh and Corynn's daily has become this:

I believe getting to open that ONE present yesterday sent her over the edge - she won't leave them alone now. See Exhibit A:

Funny thing is, that's HER present! AND NO it's not wipes, there is a Pooh toy in there for her.

She is going to be in sooo much trouble when Cade sees that in the morning.