The start of our Christmas baking...

Our Christmas baking has finally begun and no one could be happier about that than me. I so enjoy all the baking a cooking that surrounds the holiday season.

I made Graham Cracker Crumb Fruit Cake the other day....to my husband's total and complete JOY!! =) And today I supervised Taylor as she made her Candy Cane Cookies for her Girls Scout Troop Cookie Exchange this yr.

She did a fabulous job and they turned out perfect.

All wrapped up pretty for her friends!

One special cookie for her leader.
You did a great job Taylor! They look and taste amazing!

Christmas pics of the grandbaby...

The last weekend the kids where here, we took some pics of Jasmine and I am just now getting around to posting them....sorry mom and dad. =)

Such a beautiful little face.

Too cute.

Loving her new Christmas bear from Great Grandma Ruby and her candy cane from Grand Dela!

She would say....nummy!

Love ya Jasmine girl.

Jasmine turns 1....

Can't believe that our little grand daughter is one now. Seems like yesterday we were excitedly awaiting the announcement of her arrival. And now she is a year old, walking around and talking in the sweetest little voice and bring much joy to our life.

We were laughing at how our 'girl' numbers have gone from two to four quickly and Taylor and I have decided we like sharing our Queen and Princess status with Crystal and jazzy. The four of us reign our family very well I must say. Love all my girls.

Jazzy loving the present we got for her. A little music box. Oh the faces she made...so cute.


She was so funny to watch.


This picture is out of order, but she couldn't wait to get her hands on the cake.


Crystal decided on this cake for Jazzy and I think I had just as much fun making it as she had ripping into it. lol

I think it turned out real cute, even after some mishaps and little fingers getting into it early on.

Oh yea, she was loving it.

Too too cute.

Getting all washed up....can you say 'sugar rush'?

Wes, Crystal and Jasmine. Love them so much!

Getting into the Christmas Spirit...

Ok, yes I know we live in Fl, but I can dream about 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' can't I?

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Taylor's Birthday Video...

Our Thankfull tree...

So my father called me the other day wanting to know if I could use a cork board. I said Yes, of-course, and was pleasantly surprised when it arrived as to how BIG it was. Now as I know dad will be saying "I told her the dimensions" while he reads this, I will say that I had a moment and those dimensions he told me did not 'register' with me when he told them to me, UNTILL I saw it.

ANYWAY, we put it up on the wall right away and the kids LOVE having it, so thank you daddy!

We decided for this month to put a Thankful Tree on one side of it and the other the kids have a place to put a paper from our school day to show their father when he gets home. They take great pride that they have a paper on the board and have seen them taking more time on their writing to make it extra neat. So I am thinking I may have to keep that part of the board each month. =)

They have really enjoyed putting the leaves on the tree so far. Though both Taylor and Trevor have put thought into what to put on each leaf, I still get a laugh from one of them every day. They are thankful for family, love, candy, shoes, socks, God, mommy, daddy, food, life, cookies, money....and the list goes on. I am pleased to see the thoughtfulness that goes into those leafs though and am glad for the awareness they have for the blessings in their life.

I will post a pic of the tree at the end of the month!

Another trip to the ER for Tuckor...

So we had to take our little man to the ER again the other night. He was running, tripped and slammed his head onto our one and only step in our house. And of course it has to be a tile step.

But as you can see below, he is just fine and back to his normal crazy, happy self. They glued it shut instead of stitching, which this mother was very thankful for. He does not do well with that as we found out last trip to the ER for his lip.

Thankful he is ok.