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Lots of baking going on.....

Lots of Christmas baking going on around here in the last 2 weeks. Everyone chose a favorite to make:
Kim ~ Molasses Sugar Cookies
Steve ~ Peanut Butter Blossoms
Nate ~ Cookie Dough Truffles
Sarah ~ Sugar Cookies
Natalie ~ she likes them all!
We also made some chocolate fudge and will be making candy popcorn and mini cheesecakes too for Christmas dinner. Luckily we have a little help eating all these goodies! I really enjoy spending time with the kids in the kitchen and hopefully the kids will remember it many years from now!

Merry Christmas 2009!

Knit Afghan

I finally finished it! I started knitting this afghan when I was pregnant with Natalie and I finally finished it up today. It took much longer than I anticipated, but I'm glad I stuck with it!

Thanksgiving 2009

We spent Thanksgiving this year in Michigan with Steve's family. We got to meet baby Chloe for the first time and Nate got to go hunting. We had a great visit with the Slivinskis and Thompsons and enjoyed hanging out at the farm. The boys got to go out hunting and even though no one got anything, they still had fun. Gigi gave all her granddaughters the Christmas bears that she has. They each got to pick one and take it home. Natalie chose the one that plays music!

Trick or Treating

We weren't sure if Natalie was going to dress up - she doesn't really like costumes - but she decided that she'd like to wear Sarah's carrot costume. Sarah used this costume when she was 4yrs old and Natalie looks an awfully lot like Sarah did at that age. Sarah was much more into trick or treating at age 2! Natalie managed to make it to a few houses before being scared by a neighbor boy in a skeleton costume - after that she wanted to go home and hang out with Daddy.

Sarah's friend Abby came over with her sister Lexi, so we went around to a few more houses. The older girls got the bejeebers scared out of them by a Freddy (from Friday the 13th) look alike at one house. I have to say - it was pretty scary to have him jump out of a dark corner at us - don't blame the girls for running away! Nate spent the evening at a friend's birthday party so didn't dress up this year.

Cross Country Invitational

Sarah was once again invited to the mile run hosted by Anoka High School. It was held this year on Halloween morning. She placed 7th this year out of about 40 girls - her best finish ever!