Still Snowing & Baking

Well, it snowed ALL DAY again today and we have a good foot out there! While it is EXTREMELY beautiful to watch and lots of fun to play in (we felt like kids again), with no truck, snow tires, chains or 4 wheel drive....we are pretty much snowed in!! Not that I would want to be driving around in this stuff anyways. It is definitely changing our plans and altering our to do lists, but coming at a very important time to remember what this season is truly all about. We have enjoyed family time around the fire, baking in the kitchen and whatever of our "must dos" don't get done before Christmas...oh well. We have heard more snow is expected in a couple days, so could be a very interesting week ahead! Poor Jason has not been able to make it in to work since Thursday as the buses aren't running, the roads are bad and Seattle is having the same problems we are!! So today I made a few more recipes (click on pic to get), and we had lots of fun in the SNOW....check it out.

Waiting for Mama to come back from a walk

Just going for a winter stroll

Getting ready to build a snowman

We had to put her somewhere!

Yes, she is eating the snow..EVERYWHERE

Well, the girls were getting cold, so our snowMAN turned into a snowbaby

although, I think it looks like a puppy face

coming back from my walk, could barely walk in the thick snow!

eating snow

sled time

Jason had to get one in too!

7 inches and counting...

Our own little ET

Tonight Jason was playing with Emma and put a blanket over her head....she started walking away and reminded us of that scene in ET on Halloween. The even funnier thing is Emma LOVED it and kept wanting the blanket to be put on her head. She was bumping into everything and kept mumbling "bop bop bop"...but every time the blanket came off she wanted it back on. We have our own personal entertainment...enjoy!!

Let the Little Children Come to Me...

...there is a sweetness about little children learning their prayers and such a sincerity in which they say them. I have been trying to catch Angelica saying her Hail Mary for awhile now but every time she spots me with the camera!! It is so cute....she knows it very well when we say it together, but when she does it alone she splits it into two prayers...the Hail Mary and the Holy Mary with an Amen at the end of both!! We have been adding prayers to her night time prayers and she has fallen in love with her Guardian Angel prayer...we have to say it about twice at night and she repeats it during the day. Yesterday Jason found her kneeling in front of our nativity scene saying it.....because after all there is an Angel on top!! So today, I caught her again and here it is....notice when I try to get her to say her other prayers she always goes back to the Angel one...and I have no idea what the Tupperware lid adds to the prayer at the end! So sweet, definitely one of those melt your heart memories to hold onto! (sorry a little dark)

Holiday Treats

My little Baker Elf has been helping me FINALLY make some of our favorite holiday goodies, plus some new ones. With all these snow storms, we have been home bound and happy cooking! So here are some of the ones we have made (click on pics for recipes) and hopefully a few more to come!! PLEASE feel free to leave a comment with any of your favorites as I am always up for adding to our list and trying something new and yummy!! Hope your holiday baking and goody making is coming along as well!!

Recipes below (click on pic)

Christmas Pretzels
Holly Cookies

Chocolate Mint Sticks

Puff Balls

Peanut Krispies

Peppermint Bark