Christmas Baking

Every year my family tries to have a day that we bake all of out goodies for Christmas! This year it happened to be on the 19th that we baked! It was a lot of fun! Josiah actually could help a little bit this year. We made sugar cookies and decorated them...they never turn out pretty but it is so much fun! We also made oreo balls and peanut butter balls. We usually make more than that, but Josh had been sick a few days before so we didn't want to stay too long. Here are a few pictures from that day.

Josiah and GrannyMe and my daddy

Josiah and his Granny P (this is my aunt, but he calls her Granny P!)

Trying some cookie dough out

Me and my sweet boy

I know you are jealous of these...haha!

I love having this tradition and I look forward to it every year!

Another tradition that we have is my friend Rachel and her HUGE family have a baking day too. We went over to Rach's mom's house on the 23rd, they bake so much more than we do! I don't have any pictures from that but we had a really good time!

Eve

Merry Christmas Eve!!! We are at my parents this morning! We had some delicious cinnamon rolls and opened our Christmas Eve present! We always get one present and it is always pajamas. Josiah got some cute Santa pjs with Mickey Mouse slippers! We are going to go back to our house and let Josiah nap. Then we are headed to do Christmas with Josh's side of the family! Hope everyone has a great day!

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Droid

My blackberry was broke all last week. I asked josh to call Verizon to get me a new one sent to me! Well....the fed ex guy finally showed up with it yesterday. I opened up the package to find a droid!!!!!!!!! I was so excited! I downloaded the blog app so now (if this works) I can post from my phone!!

I hope everyone is having a great week! I still have a few more presents to buy!

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Little helper

Last minute change of plans the girls decided to have the Christmas party at my house! So I have been cleaning and cleaning. BUT there is a sweet little boy that isn't helping!...... Don't ask about his clothes...I was folding Josh's clothes and Josiah saw the socks and tried to put them on so I put them on for him! HAHA!

Email

Josiah's birthmom (J) has been on my mind lately! I think about her all the time because she holds a special place in my heart, but around the holidays I think about her even more!

We haven't spoke to her since the day after Josiah was born except for one email. J's mom emails me every once in awhile to let me know how J is doing and to see how Josiah is but other than that I don't hear from them. (Some people may not want any contact, but I like to know that J is doing good!) We have to send pictures every once in awhile to Bethany Christian Services and I also send J's mom some too!

I haven't heard from her mom in over 5 months but I received an email today! She said that J is starting college in January! This just makes me so happy! I am so excited for her! J's mom also asked me to send some pictures because she wants to make J a photo album of Josiah! I have been wanting to do this, but I don't have an address for her and I didn't know how she would feel about it. I am so glad she is doing this for her, so I am going to go through all of my pictures and send her a ton of our sweet baby boy!

Mason Jar Gift

Josh has a Christmas luncheon tomorrow at work. I have to make macaroni and cheese. I am little nervous because I have only made this recipe one other time! Hopefully it turns out okay. He also has to take $25 present for the dirty Santa game. I suggested that he went to 5 different places and get a $5 gift card to them all! So he went to McDonald's, Starbucks, Sonic, Whataburger and Chick-fil-a! I would fight over that gift! ;)


Josh has 5 people that work in his part of the office so I decided to do this . They are Smores Bars and they are delicious!

You put the following ingredients in a Mason jar:

1 1/2 cup of teddy grahams
1 1/2 cup of mini marshmallows
1 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup of brown sugar

I then put the directions on the back of the name tag!

Preheat oven to 350
Prepare 9" square baking pan with non-stick cooking spray
Pour contents of jar along with 1/2 cup of butter into the prepared dish and press firmly. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely. Cut into squares.

I thought they were super cute! I had some ingredients left over so I made Josh and I some, and I have to say they are pretty good!!

On a totally different note....my dang blackberry broke today. I can call out and receive calls but I cannot text, blackberry message, get online or use any of my apps....I mean what good is it? So my absolutely wonderful husband called and got Verizon to send me a new blackberry! It should arrive by Friday thank goodness! I don't know how I will survive!

Wordless Wednesday

I guess this is the way we watch Mickey these days!
Playing with the bottle (No I do NOT let him drink Mountain Dew!!! :)) This kid LOVES some cupcakes!

My handsome husband decorating the tree!

Josiah in his daddy's socks and shoes...