January birthdays!

 

WE celebrated January birthdays, we have 3!!  Tydon's is on the 15th!! Happy 5th birthday Tydon!

Lincoln's is on the 21st, he will be 3! Happy Birthday Lincoln! McKenly's is on the 27th and she will be 2!

 

Caitlin was the maker of these fine cakes.  This is her first try with fondant cakes and I think she did fantastic!  Tydon wanted a spider man cake so here is her creation for his spider man cake! (Don't you love the sippy cup for the accents!)

 

Here is McKenly's princess cake. Pretty much love everything about this cake.  Great Job Caitlin!

 

Here is his black spider man above the tall buildings!

We didn't have a cake for Lincoln because they want to celebrate his birthday on his birthday.

 

McKenly opening her gift, love those red eyes!

 

Tydon trying to figure out what is in his.

 

Is it something spider man?

 

McKenly is all girl and loves to get clothes!

 

Sporting her new coat.

 

Yep, it was something spider

man and now he is loose on the unsuspecting brother!

 

See, I told you she loves clothes.

 

Watch out there might be a spider man in your neighbor hood!

 

and just ending with a picture of Trevor, "What's the big deal Grandma!"

 I love his cute little face!

 So, Happy Birthday to all of you!

Happy New Years!

 

We started New Years off by ruining the frozen rolls.  So Instead of frozen rolls we made some cheesy, garlic buttered pull apart s. They turned out okay, but I probably should have cooked them a little longer.  But it was better than throwing the rolls out, (the rolls had started to rise int the bag so they were all squished together.)

 

We had a yummy dinner of home made noodle soup, fresh salsa, guacamole, jalapeno poppers, itty bitty dogs in a blanket, (these were the biggest hit with the grand kids.) fruit, and of course shrimp!

 

Bryce loved the little bottles of soda.

 

Tydon and Nate just love it all.

 

Because the Cannons were with us we had a spectacular fireworks show!

 

Nate was the firework holder.

 

and the Statue of Liberty.

We loved the show!

 

There is just something about boys and their fire works.

 

Doing a dance around the fire.

 

Waiting for the next boom!

Hope your New Year is doing great ours sure is!

Christmas Eve

 

I know Christmas is past but I tried to up load these pictures earlier and blogger must have been having problems because I couldn't get them to load! 

To start off our Christmas eve celebration we made a baby quilt that we are donating to a charity.

 

I was glad to see that all my grandsons were interested in learning how to tie a quilt.  They did a great job and will be ready to help the next time we have a quilt to tie.

 

See how good they are concentrating and doing!

 

We had a tamale dinner with fresh salsa, guacamole, rice, beans, and pomegranate salad.  Everything was  delicious and it tasted so yummy!

 

We had a big pot of tamales.

 

I think Lincoln is wishing he had that food!

 

We then played the right and left game and had to have some help with all of the rights and lefts in the story.

 

Okay, by looking at Rainee's face maybe it wasn't too fun for her. (sorry Rainee I couldn't resist)

 

Things are looking up!

 

We then had the Nativity. Some of our props were not quite accurate, but they put on a great production.(Doesn't that horse look like a donkey?)

 

We couldn't get Mary to wear her costume but she loved her donkey.

Some of our shepherds staffs were a little makeshift. (a noodle, star wars sword, carrot bat, etc.)

 

Mary loved her baby Jesus.

 

Oh, another makeshift staff, (the quilting board.)

 

Quite a group of good looking shepherds and wise men.

 

The camel the wise men rode was  looking a lot like a stick horse.

 

Great production for the year 2011, and we even had a Mary this year!

 

I always loved watching this when my own kids were growing up and now on to the next generation.

 

WE also had another use for our carrot bat. Watch for the next activity...

 

Those shepherds walked a long way.

 

Oh, here is another use for our shepherds staff... lets break the pinata!

 

These dainty hits didn't do much damage.

 

Getting ready for the big sluggers!

 

Yep, here they come!

 

Hurry grab as much as you can!

 

Lincoln and McKenly were more interested in the glow lights that were in the pinata.

 

Then onto the presents!

 

McKenly showing off her new slippers.

 

Our gift,  the first letter of the name of our new grandson to be born in May!!

Traegan!

 

Ryan sporting some of his gifts, don't you love that snow shovel!  It could really move some snow if we had any!  It was a great Christmas eve celebration and a great day with the family.