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Christmas Cookies!!

Each year we try and do at least one kind of christmas cookie and this year we actually slaved away in the kitchen and made three different kinds. Making christmas cookies is NOT my idea of fun, nor do I really enjoy it as it gets so messy. Elijah and Caden however think it is so much fun and so we continue to do it each year. I think the hard part for me is watching flour get spilt all over the floor, sprinkles go flying everywhere, clothes covered in sugar, and fingers scrapping all the bowls and tongues cleaning off the utensils. Im a tidy person in my kitchen and I don't mind having my kids help here and there with dinners, but to let them have free roam of my kitchen is really hard for me to do. Like nick had to constantly remind me "that we don't do this to have cookies in our house and junk food lying around, we do this for the experience and memories with our kids". Its just so hard to remember that!! But he is absolutely right because if we didn't have kids, I sure wouldn't do it!! So here are some pictures for you all to enjoy of us working(and eating/licking) in the kitchen:)Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting. Yummy. We wanted to do the cutout cookies but accidently made the wrong cookie batter. Opps!!It is so finger licking good, huh boys????
Is the bowl cleaning enough yet?? I did finally take it away as they had licked it pretty clean!!White Chocolate covered pretzels are my favorite and so simple to do, and the boys loved to sprinkle red sugar on them.Nick picked doing Buckeye's this year. They turned out great and we might just have to do them next year as well:)

Christmas Cheer!

Several weeks back we decorated our house for christmas. Its always so much fun to decorate for the holidays and watch the boys have fun decorating the tree. I have loved checking out all the other holiday home tours on blogging world so I thought Id just share a few of our pictures that we took this year of our decorated home. Enjoy!

Here is Caden putting on Jr. Asparagus from Veggie Tales.

Nick chose to decorate with the greenery. He ended up doing a great job. Thanks hun.Elijah loved helping decorate the christmas tree.And now for the pictures of the finished home all decorated. Here is our home from the outside.We have never had a white light christmas tree before, but this year I was able to buy a prelit white light christmas tree and I was so excited to have a tree with white lights. As we were putting up the tree Elijah asked where the colored lights were and I told him this year its going to stay white. He reponded "well, thats boring". So, I decided to be nice and allow him a little bit of color this year by decorating a tiny tree for our kitchen near our table so he could have his "colored lights". Here is the tiny tree.

Bunk Beds

Well, now that we are pretty certain that we will have 3 boys running around this house, it was time to get a bedroom set that would suit these three little munchkins. Elijah and Caden are delighted to sleep together in the same room, and so far we have only had one night out of 3 that we have had to constantly tell them to "shhhh" and "go to sleep". Here are the boy's beds. Id love to paint in there someday, but we plan to wait on that`for now.

Boy Names

Well, Nick and I have been talking "boy names" recently. We have several that we like, but really aren't sure we found one we want to call our son. I know this is random and I could get lots of thoughts and opinions from all my blogging buddies, but I thought it would be fun to see if anyone is willing to share boy names with us. We have no rhyme or reason to our kids' names so anything is a go. Although we both have strong feelings about a name that could be mixed gender, so we want a manly name:) So all you out there.....any ideas as to what we should call our son??
I think it would be fun if you leave a comment and give me at least 5 boy names you are willing to share. If you aren't willing to share it cause you want to keep it for your own boy someday, then don't share it with us, cause I can't promise you that I might not use one of the names listed:)
Have a blessed day!

My Best Friends Wedding!

All my life I have known Rachel Huber. We grew up together and did something nearly every sunday after church together. We were like two pea's in a pod. We even went on trips together starting at age 3. Ever since Ive been married (nearly 8 years) I have been praying for Rachel to get married as I knew this is what she wanted. Alas one saturday I got a call that she was engaged. Praise be to God!!! I just cried and cried with excitment and then she asked me to be in the wedding. After so many years I figured she would probably have so many friends to choose from that she wouldn't really ask me to be a part of her wedding. BUT SHE DID!! It was such an HONOR to be in her wedding knowing she could have chosen so many other gals. So without further ado here is my best friends wedding. (in the not so great quality pictures)

I LOVE YOU RACH!!