I'm Dreaming of A White Christmas (said in a deep manly tone!) Ha ha

Friday morning my sister Sara came and we baked cookies. It was so much fun! We made scotcheroo's, peanut clusters, chocolate covered pretzels (dark and white), those peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss on top, and Reese's peanut butter cups. Yum, yum, yum! We're planning on taking them to Christmas Eve at my parents house. We've been doing pretty good at staying out of them and just eating the defects if we need a chocolate/sugar fix.

I so enjoy when my sisters come up and visit. Sometimes it's a bit hectic when everyone is around at my parents house, but when it's just a few of us we always have some good talks. With several interruptions from Landen, of course. He's quite the entertainer and is always around for a good laugh. Sara got in trouble by him for touching Amelia's head - she has a soft spot, duh - and he let her know it. =) That was our fun on Friday.

Yesterday we went to Wal-mart to get the basic things we needed to take for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that I had forgotten or was just told we needed to bring. What is it with people waiting until the weekend before Christmas to get their Christmas shopping done? Not the food, the presents - ahh! I seriously would freak out on someone. I'd just grab whatever I saw and get out of there as fast as I could. I was just trying to get through the aisles to get food, without hitting someone while pushing a lop sided, defective cart. How do I always manage to get those carts? And why wouldn't my husband trade me? Yes, we now have to take two carts.. lol! I have Amelia and the cart with the stuff we actually need, Kurt has Landen and the cart with the things we don't really need. Oh.. how things change once you have children!

Now I shall go and finish the laundry, make a peppermint pie, iron clothes for tomorrow, get things around for tomorrow (all the junk we have to take with us), and try to load presents up so Kurt can't take sneaks at his gifts and figure out what they are. =) If I'm not on here again before Christmas. Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!

Chocolate is yum, yum in my tum!

I made my first ever chocolate dipped pretzels Sunday afternoon. They turned out quite yummy! Some are white with sprinkles, some are brown with sprinkles, and the others brown with white drizzled on top. They're addicting so Kurt is going to take them to work tomorrow. I can't control myself with chocolate anymore, so it's better to have a few and give the rest away then sit and literally eat an entire tin of them in one day. =) I also tried some snow covered chocolate balls - ick! I have a feeling they might get tossed - ha ha. Kurt had the ingenious idea of putting marshmallows inside them so they'd taste better, that didn't help, just made them hard and the marshmallow all leaked out. He did come up with a brilliant idea of chocolate covered rasins - yummmmm! Landen and I have them about all eatten already. He he! I'm planning on trying peanut butter cups this week - as soon as I get the ingredients. Yummy!

I finally buzzed Landen's hair. I've been cutting it for along time now, but I thought we would try something more like his dad's hair cut this time. It turned out - okay. I'm not sure how to blend the longer top hair into the buzzed bottom hair. Does anyone know how to do this? It doesn't look bad, but I need to learn how to actually do it correctly for next time. He looks different though! He needed a hair cut really bad before we did this anyway - but before it was just short all over his head.

Before and After

He's such a little trooper when he gets his hair cut. He hates the hair in his face, but for the most part he'll sit in his chair and watch a movie and be really good. Anyway, that was my other task for this weekend. I can't wait for Amelia to have longer hair so she can wear braids or pig tails. I just have to learn to do a french braid - they look cute in little girls hair. =) Mine are always really loose and look like you've slept on it for a few days without doing your hair.