Post Christmas

Christmas was nice this year. The boys were very excited. Grandma came over Christmas Eve and made homemade tamales a little tradition we do every year. On Christmas day Andrew woke up Grandma and asked if he missed Santa and she said no. So we all got up and the kids were very excited to see all the presents.

Santa brought the kids their very own excavator and they were so excited that they wanted to go play outside at 7 am.

Grandma Herme bought the kids clothes and when I say clothes I mean lots of clothes. Andrew got 2 huge bags of Jackets, sweaters, pants, vests, and shirts.  Adam got his own bag full of clothes too. That's how grandma rolls -- she shops throughout the year and tucks everything away, but then forgets about it. Then when Christmas comes she nearly has a heart attack because of all the clothes she bought.  We love grandma!

Holiday Baking

I decided to do some baking this holiday season. I found a fantastic recipe for Oreo Cookie Fudge. This came out so good that I had to make another batch last night. I know, I'm on a diet, but I did pretty good and only ate a few pieces.

Here is a the recipe

I also made chocolate fantasy fudge that came out fabulous. You can find that recipe on the back of a  jet puffed marshmallow cream jar.

Happy Baking

Suck it up Santa

On Saturday we ventured out in the cold, wet rain to visit Santa at The Grove. I've been wanting to take the kids there to see the Christmas tree, the lights and it snows every evening. However, thanks to the rain we only got to see a cranky ol' Santa.  Raul's brother went as well, so we had all the kids sit on Santa's lap. Of course my little guy cried his eyes out when I handed him over to Santa, but it will make for a classic Holiday Christmas Photo.

Santa looked very annoyed as all the kids settled next to him and then I handed him a screaming 2 yr old.  After the kids took their picture, they were given a little treat. My husband didn't realize Andrew already received one from Santa until he snapped at Raul "he already got one."   Lighten up Santa, it's Christmas!

Happy Monday 

School Days

On Tuesday I went to Andrew's Winter Program at his school.  Each grade sung a Christmas song and a Hanukkah song. I watched the 5th graders singing and imagined Andrew and what he would look like when he was a 5th grader! I can't think that far ahead; I can't picture him being such a big boy.  After all the big kids, the little pre-k's finally got on stage. I could see Andrew looking for me in the audience. I hid because I knew if he saw me that he would run off stage.  His teacher told me that during rehearsals on Wednesday Andrew pulled his pants down on stage. I was praying he wouldn't do that during the show, and he didn't. But I secretly thought how funny that might of been. I tried to get some pictures of Andrew but the lighting was horrible. He's on the top row, 2nd from the left side.

I'm still stuck on the fact that Andrew is growing up. He's going to be 5 in April and starting Kindergarten in the fall.  I watch him and I can't believe he can spell his first and last name to me and he can write his first name .. not perfectly of course but he's learning. I was watching him do his homework the other night tracing his letters - loves it!

Christmas Tree is up!

We finally got our tree on Sunday! I love the way the tree looks this year. I usually go for an all silver tree, but this year since Andrew is so into rainbow colors I decided to go with that and I loves it.

Andrew requested rainbow candy canes. Hopefully Santa will bring some new pj's.

School Pictures

Ah, school pictures. You always hope those pictures come out good. I prayed Adam would not cry as he hates getting his picture taken. I couldn't even get his 2 year pictures done because he was crying.  Of course the day of his pictures he wouldn't sit still and cried. The teachers and photographer did their best to entertain him but it didn't help.  Andrew took an awesome picture but for some reason there is dirt on his nose. Ah well, these pictures will make for great memories.

(Arrghhh...can't upload my cute photo of the boys. I guess that's what I get for scanning at work -- photo to come soon)



Andrew's New Pet

Oh that Grandma Herme. When Andrew was over her house they went for a walk and saw some roosters. Ever since then Andrew has been fascinated by this ... animal.   Last weekend raul brought home a bag of things from Herme. There were Christmas mugs, a tablecloth, and then there was a ceramic rooster dish set. At first I thought "awesome" she bought me a new dish set. Um, no. She bought Andrew the dish set it. I thought that was cute and thoughtful.

Then, last night grandma cameover to decorate the kids bedrooms for Christmas, very cute. Do you see what's on the corner of Andrew's bed? Yup, a rooster. His very own metal, sharp -- rooster.
Of course he loved it.

Andrew also inherited a rooster place mat and a rooster mat, which is really meant for the kitchen sink but Herme thought it would be cute in the shower, and it kind of is.

Here is a picture of the rooster ensemble.

Adam loved the rooster too and of course now they fight over it and Herme said she'll buy Adam a wooden one. Awesome.