New egg cups

New egg cups
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How can you go wrong with a soft boiled egg in such an adorable container?

Derek's gifts

Derek's gifts
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Derek got a ROBOT!!!!, a game and a book. Oh and some gift cards.

As a family we got some movies to OH!!

and a Wii Fit!!! WooHoo.

Max's gifts

Max's gifts
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Max got Lego, games, a book, some gift cars, a car and a board game.

Eva's gifts

Eva's gifts
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I got egg cups, pj's, a pressure cooker, yarn, stitch markers and an I PHONE!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

John's gifts

John's gifts
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Merry Christmas everyone! John got a dad mug, red convers shoes, a wow T-shirt and some games.

Eggnog Bread

Eggnog Bread
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LOL I was going to take a picture of the whole loaf. I'm not sure what happened. All the sudden it was half gone.

1 stick butter, soft
2 eggs, room temp
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp rum extract (I used 1 T real rum)
1 cup eggnog
1/3 cup sour cream
2 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice (I used cloves)

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and rum. Mix. Blend in eggnog and sour cream. Add all dry ingredients to wet mixture and mix. Pour into a 9x5 greased loaf pan. Bake for 50-60 min at 350.

front door

front door
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Here is the front. We bought Poinsettias from Derek's scout troop this year. I was surprised how big and beautiful they were. We have a very festive house this year.

x-mas lights

x-mas lights
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We put up light this year. First time ever. I thought it was going to be hard to hang them, but nope. Only took a couple hours.

Gingy's house

Gingy's house
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Here it is all finished. Hope the ants don't find it!

We have been at war with the ants for about 2 weeks. We are wining ;)

Making a gingerbread house

Making a gingerbread house
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Tonight we made our gingerbread house. The boys were disappointing about not being able to eat it. But we did all have a good time making it :)

All my Needles

All my Needles
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And it's done. I thought it would take much longer. Well 3/4 of the way through my sewing machine broke. I took it apart and cleaned it and that took a while. Anyway I just need to pick up some ribbon. I think I will get yellow.

fabric for needle case

fabric for needle case
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I've started a new project. I'm making a needle case for myself. It will hold all on my knitting needles. I had a very hard time picking out the material. It took me over an hour. At the same time I also was getting material to make a friend a gift (a hanging circular needle holder). I'm slow at sewing so after I made the gift I put my machine away for a bit. I forgot about the second needle case til now. I got out my machine to hem Derek's band pants and found the bag with material in it. SOOOO I decided to make my case!

The Flu Got Me

Well I'm sick. Way sick. I had planned on getting a flu shot but usually the clinic we go to sends out a flyer saying when to go. I think we missed it. John got his a work. So far he is not sick. I guess my strain was covered in his shot. Max has the light version but I have full on badness.

:(

Trimming the Tree