a few pics...

I didn't really post pics from last week - but there are a few that I wanted to share with you now. I think that for this year I will continue with pictures - but the format will change a little - we'll see. Anyway... take a look...

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M has taken a real interest in cooking. She likes to read the cookbooks and decipher the measurements and ingredients. She likes to help too! She had been bringing home a children's cook book from school and she was so sad when it had to be returned. So - for Christmas, Grandma Sandy said to find her something with cooking and I did! I found the modern version of the same cookbook that she had been bringing home - and the sweetest little "chef outfit" ever! M was super excited and she just couldn't wait. For her first creation she made us a peanut butter cream cheese dip - it wasn't bad (and I don't like cream cheese!).

Later in the week we took M to get her hair cut. She cuts a little herself - here and there. Then Tim cut her bangs - per my request - but he didn't know that hair is longer wet than dry - so when those bangs dried - they became WAY SHORTER than I was expecting! Then on Wednesday morning she got gum in her hair. Needless to say - the poor mop on her head was a mess and in need of some TLC! So off to get it "fixed" we went!

It snowed a lot last week! M & N got sleds for Christmas. They've been using the driveway - as you know! I figured that I better get some pics of em' while I can - and I found N riding his sled like a snowboard and M was trying it too! They were having so much fun in the snow! I really should take em' to a real sledding hill - but for now the driveway will do (I guess).

NEW YEAR'S EVE: I figured that it's not every day that you get to celebrate a new year with your kids so we might as well have a dinner that we don't usually have (with kids that is). So - I decided to go with Swiss Cheese Fondue! Ah - they were all so excited to see Fondue forks at their places and real glass - glasses! Yeah - I was the cool mom on the last night of 2009!