Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Oh, the concentration of frosting a sugar cookie. most of Alex's looked better than mine!


Grandma (GiGi) and Sammy making cookies. Sammy loved the rolling and cutting part because he could eat the dough!

My not-so-impressive sugar cookie lady. There are so many reasons I make cakes and not cookies!!

Grandpa and Alex did some PlayDough sculpture and had a lot of fun with Alex's new Play Dough Machine from Aunt Jen-Jen.


All of the grandkids exchanged presents since they won't see each other at Christmas time.


A couple of cheeseballs!! ;-)





Sammy enjoyed all of the new cars he got this year. Cars are his passion.


Here Grandpa has the three oldest boys lined up to see the cookoo clock as it gets ready to chime.

A few years ago Mom got us going on the Scottish tradition of all of us opening Christmas crackers. Inside the cracker is a small gift for everyone as well as a little paper crown. They are really fun.


Aunt Jen-Jen and the boys.


We really wanted to get a good family picture for our Christmas card. This isn't the one we chose, but we did get several good shots with all four of us looking at the camera and even most smiling!! Miracles never cease!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Carving Pumpkins

Alex was very excited, which surprised us because he doesn't usually like to get into stuff that is mushy and gooshy!

And Sam was very uninterested, also surprising since he is our "squish-the-mud" kind of kid. But he really did not like the feel of the seeds or the pumpkin gunk at all!

Checkin' out Gampa's finished jack-o-lantern.

Alex chose what shapes would make our "jack's" face and where to put them.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Yes, We are Still Alive & Well!!



No, we have not been abducted by aliens, moved to Canada, or gotten lost in a nearby cornfield!! We have however, broken our computer and had to buy a new one--and it has taken me a while to get all my photos transferred over. Not to mention how crazy busy our schedule has been lately! and though I would love to say that I will get back to regular blogging this week, I must admit that the next few weeks on the calendar look pretty hectic....so I'll do my best!! In the mean time, here are a few recent pics of our two big boys at dinner!