What can I say? We love and miss this sweet boy!
Aunt MO
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Decorating of the cookies!
Ok, and so now that the cookies are baked, our baths were given (note wet hair still), and we are in our Christmas outfits, it's time for the finishing touches on the cookies!
We didn't have frosting, but Ellie had made it glaringly clear that we would be adding the sprinkles that KK brought us for Christmas!
Sooooo, strawberry cream cheese it was!
I gotta say. It worked like a charm!
A friend stopped by during this chaos and insisted I get in a pic or two with my girls. I am always glad to get in a few pics.
Even if I looked like I'd just been beaten by the ugly stick! Those are my pjs, and I am without make up! The girls always get first dibs on mom's time and attention when we are going out in public. I usually end up about half cocked myself!
I was glad to see that Gabbi Girl also wanted to get in on the fun.
And Todd is always happy to get in a picture too. (NOT!)
I absolutely adored these little aprons that KK got them.
It was a great gift. And now, I think a precedent has been set for making those elaborate cookies on the 24th.
Don't you even think that Ellie Sue won't remember this next year and request the whole nine yards where cookie decorating is concerned!
And then came the time for sampling.
This is my friend, Kellye. Guess where she is now. In the BLIZZARD in New York City!
I've always wanted to see NYC at Christmas, but not sure I want to be there during a blizzard. It dropped down to the 20's here last night, and we feel like we should be hibernating!
And a few more of my girlies THOROUGHLY enjoying this task!
Wait! Ellie! What are you doing?!
Gabbi Girl... move your toes... quick!
And finally, I give you....
Santa Claus cookies!
Don't they look divine?!
We started with four bottles of these! just sayin'!
Making memories!
We didn't have frosting, but Ellie had made it glaringly clear that we would be adding the sprinkles that KK brought us for Christmas!
Sooooo, strawberry cream cheese it was!
I gotta say. It worked like a charm!A friend stopped by during this chaos and insisted I get in a pic or two with my girls. I am always glad to get in a few pics.
Even if I looked like I'd just been beaten by the ugly stick! Those are my pjs, and I am without make up! The girls always get first dibs on mom's time and attention when we are going out in public. I usually end up about half cocked myself!
I was glad to see that Gabbi Girl also wanted to get in on the fun.
And Todd is always happy to get in a picture too. (NOT!)
I absolutely adored these little aprons that KK got them.
It was a great gift. And now, I think a precedent has been set for making those elaborate cookies on the 24th.
Don't you even think that Ellie Sue won't remember this next year and request the whole nine yards where cookie decorating is concerned!
And then came the time for sampling.
This is my friend, Kellye. Guess where she is now. In the BLIZZARD in New York City!
I've always wanted to see NYC at Christmas, but not sure I want to be there during a blizzard. It dropped down to the 20's here last night, and we feel like we should be hibernating!
And a few more of my girlies THOROUGHLY enjoying this task!
Wait! Ellie! What are you doing?!
Gabbi Girl... move your toes... quick!
And finally, I give you....
Santa Claus cookies!
Don't they look divine?!We started with four bottles of these! just sayin'!
Making memories!Mo
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Making cookies for Santa!
Ok, so KK brought the girls some cookie cutters for Christmas. 
And as with everything... this, too, had to turn into a major ordeal!
Ellie had to line every single one of them up on the kitchen floor in the order in which she liked them.
KK also graced us with four bottles of sprinkles. (I'm gonna shoot KK!)
TG went to work on getting the dough all whipped up. I stood by and admired him!
He has to do everything all fancy like! I tried to tell him we had cookie dough in the fridge from a kid who was selling it for school. It would've done the trick just fine!
Then Ellie and her seven bracelets got involved!
Daddy slapped that flour right on the granite countertops and rolled out the dough. I am glad the girls have someone to model when it comes to things in the kitchen!
That is NOT something they will be picking up from me!
And as with everything... this, too, had to turn into a major ordeal!
Ellie had to line every single one of them up on the kitchen floor in the order in which she liked them.
KK also graced us with four bottles of sprinkles. (I'm gonna shoot KK!)
TG went to work on getting the dough all whipped up. I stood by and admired him!
He has to do everything all fancy like! I tried to tell him we had cookie dough in the fridge from a kid who was selling it for school. It would've done the trick just fine!
Then Ellie and her seven bracelets got involved!
Daddy slapped that flour right on the granite countertops and rolled out the dough. I am glad the girls have someone to model when it comes to things in the kitchen!
That is NOT something they will be picking up from me!And even though she has no idea what is going on, she is still bossing everyone around!
Pretty good, Daddy-O!
Ellie went through her pile of cutters, occasionally choosing new ones.
Gabbi Girl finally decided to get off my hip and get in on the action.
And she poked around here and there on the dough, but was not nearly as pushy as Miss Bossy McGillicutty!
Stay tuned til tomorrow for the decorating of these bad boys!
Pretty good, Daddy-O!
Ellie went through her pile of cutters, occasionally choosing new ones. 
Gabbi Girl finally decided to get off my hip and get in on the action.
And she poked around here and there on the dough, but was not nearly as pushy as Miss Bossy McGillicutty!
Stay tuned til tomorrow for the decorating of these bad boys!
MO
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Christmas morning! Santa Claus came!!
Would you believe it? Santa ate every last bite of the heavily sprinkled cookies we left for him!? 
And he left a pretty good sized loot!
Gabbi, it was no surprise, was up first. In fact, Todd and I were awake and peeking in the den when she FIRST got up and was making her usual way into our bedroom. She almost always comes into our room from the den. She stopped, checked out the four wheeler, then came on in to climb into bed with us! She'd not even paid attention to all of this!
Who me? yea, you!
Dad is the official manual reader, battery setter, and game activator in our family!
Gabbi Girl found her new Twistables crayons and got right to work!
She gets a bit of tunnel vision! Once she finds an activity she likes, the world fades away!
As did that big pile of gifts behind her! She ONLY wanted to color!
And speaking of... however does this girl COLOR my world! I mean, look at these pictures! She is the epitome of sweet. (Until she is no longer content.... then it is NOT cool! but that is not what this post is about!)
She is so attentive to her project! So in the now!
Ellie is flitting around like a little butterfly. Or hummingbird. Or whatever it is that buzzes around non-stop and in constant activity mode!
This is just about the moment she spied her four wheeler!
AND Gabbi Lou's new bike! Since Dad knew to HIDE the battery of the four wheeler, lest risk a 14' tree down in the den, she hopped right on Gabbi Girl's new wheels!
round and round the den she went!!
ANd baby sister just ran along behind her!
Would you believe Santa found a box labeled "New Christmas Toys" from LAST year's Christmas, and prior to the big move, and was able to very easily recycle all of those as new gifts too!? That Santa is mighty resourceful!
Then came time for me and Todd to exchange gifts! This is the first thing I opened.
I went ahead and told him he was not headed in a positive direction. It was then that I arose and grabbed his first stocking stuffer... a tube of heel cream to soften calloused heels. Think we have some dry skin issues around here?! Remember, it's still flilp flop weather about 50% of the time!
And he left a pretty good sized loot!
Gabbi, it was no surprise, was up first. In fact, Todd and I were awake and peeking in the den when she FIRST got up and was making her usual way into our bedroom. She almost always comes into our room from the den. She stopped, checked out the four wheeler, then came on in to climb into bed with us! She'd not even paid attention to all of this!
Who me? yea, you!
Dad is the official manual reader, battery setter, and game activator in our family!
Gabbi Girl found her new Twistables crayons and got right to work!
She gets a bit of tunnel vision! Once she finds an activity she likes, the world fades away!
As did that big pile of gifts behind her! She ONLY wanted to color!
And speaking of... however does this girl COLOR my world! I mean, look at these pictures! She is the epitome of sweet. (Until she is no longer content.... then it is NOT cool! but that is not what this post is about!)
She is so attentive to her project! So in the now!
Ellie is flitting around like a little butterfly. Or hummingbird. Or whatever it is that buzzes around non-stop and in constant activity mode!
This is just about the moment she spied her four wheeler!
AND Gabbi Lou's new bike! Since Dad knew to HIDE the battery of the four wheeler, lest risk a 14' tree down in the den, she hopped right on Gabbi Girl's new wheels!
round and round the den she went!!
ANd baby sister just ran along behind her!
Would you believe Santa found a box labeled "New Christmas Toys" from LAST year's Christmas, and prior to the big move, and was able to very easily recycle all of those as new gifts too!? That Santa is mighty resourceful!
Then came time for me and Todd to exchange gifts! This is the first thing I opened.
I went ahead and told him he was not headed in a positive direction. It was then that I arose and grabbed his first stocking stuffer... a tube of heel cream to soften calloused heels. Think we have some dry skin issues around here?! Remember, it's still flilp flop weather about 50% of the time!Todd also has this tradition of signing very random people's names to all my gifts. For instance...
I don't know how his weird mind works sometimes!
I don't know how his weird mind works sometimes!
Ellie got many many paper doll type toys which all requre outfit changes! I was hoping that would keep her preoccupied for a while! and maybe keep me from having to wash her typical five outfits a day!
We are scheduled to return to Disney World soon, so we had to limit our princess intake to "small". I know we will have all the princess we can stand in a few weeks!
Gabbi Girl got several learning toys.
And as for me and my gifts, wellllll....
The tags just kept getting odder and odder! This is from Phil Knight, coach of the Lakers. ??
ANd Reggie Bush... plays for the New Orleans Saints. Oh, and used to date Kim Kardashian. How did he ever find the time to buy me something?!
And then there was this one from "Colin". Ok, then!
As well as one from "Sasha".
And a handsome purple bow. Guess who wrapped that one!
ANd Stuart SCott, the black announcer on ESPN who has the eye that doesnt' match the other eye. ANyone recognize that guy?!
Ok, back to normal Christmas things!
Wait! This was kinda classic. He got himself a DVD he'd been wanting!
And this one was from Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback. TG, what's with all the sports references this year? Come on man, you usually branch out a little more than this!
And as the morning wore on, Gabbi Girl lost some key parts of her clothes, and knelt to bond with Earl.
And then what happened, I swear, I wish I had on video!
Earl lifted his arm and put it around her just like you or I would.
They laid there and spooned briefly. That is a love affair! Gabbi loves Earl and Earl loves Gabbi. As for me... Earl is LUCKY to be in my house right now! He got sprayed by a skunk earlier this week! And it was AWFUL! But, you know... it is Christmas. So, I had my compassionate gene going! And the dog does LOVE my girl!!
We are scheduled to return to Disney World soon, so we had to limit our princess intake to "small". I know we will have all the princess we can stand in a few weeks!
Gabbi Girl got several learning toys.
And as for me and my gifts, wellllll....
The tags just kept getting odder and odder! This is from Phil Knight, coach of the Lakers. ??
ANd Reggie Bush... plays for the New Orleans Saints. Oh, and used to date Kim Kardashian. How did he ever find the time to buy me something?!
And then there was this one from "Colin". Ok, then!
As well as one from "Sasha".
And a handsome purple bow. Guess who wrapped that one!ANd Stuart SCott, the black announcer on ESPN who has the eye that doesnt' match the other eye. ANyone recognize that guy?!
Ok, back to normal Christmas things!
Wait! This was kinda classic. He got himself a DVD he'd been wanting!
And this one was from Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback. TG, what's with all the sports references this year? Come on man, you usually branch out a little more than this!
And as the morning wore on, Gabbi Girl lost some key parts of her clothes, and knelt to bond with Earl.
And then what happened, I swear, I wish I had on video!
Earl lifted his arm and put it around her just like you or I would.
They laid there and spooned briefly. That is a love affair! Gabbi loves Earl and Earl loves Gabbi. As for me... Earl is LUCKY to be in my house right now! He got sprayed by a skunk earlier this week! And it was AWFUL! But, you know... it is Christmas. So, I had my compassionate gene going! And the dog does LOVE my girl!! Thank you, Santa, for some awesome memories!
Mo
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