Little Blue Box & too many toys!!!

Well today was very exciting for us... it was Reesie's first Christmas!! :) It was so cute watching her with all her presents!! I think she was very over whelmed! Brian got a new watch & clothes and some movies and small other small stuff...and I got my little blue box!!!:) Brian was very sneaky how he gave it to me..he wrapped it in a cricut jukebox box!! (a box his mom gave to him). I was so excited..in the box was my charm bracelet I have been wanting! The bracelet was from Reesie..so in graved on the heart charm was the word "MOM".. I can't wait to start adding more charms to it!! I also got the cricut expression (get ready Cindy to help me with it) and a G.C to Victory Secert!! Reesie got toys and toys and more toys and also some pretty outfits!! Sanders & Brutus and new bones,ball and a new baby! This was a great first Christmas with our little Family!! Then this evening we went to Beth's house for dinner... Mike & Julie and the girls got in town around 7:30p! We had a good time..it is always so cute to see Reese with Ana and Olivia..they have a good time playing together!! Tomorrow we are going over to The Hoover's (Brian parents house) for Christmas with them..we have to be there at 9:30a. Then hopefully around 2:00p we are going to leave to go to N.C to be with my family for the holidays..BUT..today we notice on the truck that we have this nice size crack in the window shield and we need to get it fix before we drive to N.C!! So hopefully we can get it done sometime in the morning or early afternoon..but if it looks like it going to be later in the day when it can be fixed we are going to leave at 6am on Saturday morning!! So lets keep our fingers crossed it gets done early tomorrow! I hope all of you had a great Christmas!!

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Christmas..hope you all have a wonderful one!!

Can't believe it ...

I can't believe the Christmas Eve is tomorrow...I still have some things I need to do! But at this point if they don't get done then they just don't get done! I do this every year..wait to the last minute to do somethings and run out of time..you would think I would learn!! Oh well there is always next year!! note to self: be more prepared & allow more time for special projects!!

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cookies,cookies,cookies!!

Well this passed Saturday Jerry and I decided to make Christmas cookies..this has become a tradition with us for about the last 5 years..and in the last 5 years we have only screwed up 1 batch of cookies..until NOW!!! We decided to try out some new recipes... so we made all this dough..sugar, lemon and ginger bread...we doubled the recipe so we could split the cookies up. All the dough had to be refrigerated for a couple of hours...oh I forgot to mention that I got a new "Kitchen Aid Mixer" for an early Christmas present from my parents & Vivian (it is wonderful).. so with my new mixer we were flying through making the dough..we made sure all the ingredients were measured out right and put in..but something went terribly WRONG!! When it was time to roll out the lemon dough it was all crumbly and flaky!! So we thought.. OK we will just throw this in the trash..and try to make it again..we weren't sure what we had done wrong. So we decided to work on the sugar cookies..and wouldn't ya know the same thing had happen to this dough..so it ended up in the trash too!! At this point it had been about 4 hours since we had started making cookies...and all we had to show for it was 2 things of dough in the trash...I was so frustrated!!:( So we pulled out the gingerbread and crossed our fingers...FINALLY this dough was perfect!! So after 6 hours we had gingerbread man cookies...we decided to call it quits for the day and get together on Monday (we were both off work) and re-try making the other doughs again! So on Monday we were bound and determined to get these doughs right!! Well something we found out that we should not have used the first time was Crisco cooking sticks instead of butter...big NO NO in making cut out cookies. This time we used butter.... it was a success.. the cookies were awesome!! Then we try out these 2 other new cookie recipes..Brown sugar butter cookies & Cherry tea cookies! They turned out great..so now our confidence is re-stored in baking!! Thank God!!! We ran out of time on Monday so we got together on Tuesday after work and finished up on all the baking...and now on Thursday we are going to decorate the cut outs...what a job this has become!! I will post the finish decorated cookies and pics on Thursday!!

Christmas Card!!

So we decided to take our family photo for our Christmas cards...well after it seems like 100 tries.. this is the best picture we got!! Its not bad but I wish that little miss Reese would have smiled. She probably would have if we had someone take the picture for us..we had to set the timer and do it ourselves. But of course right after we were done she was full of smiles..she is such a little stinker..oh well better lucky next year!! I have decided this year not to make my Christmas cards..this is probably the first time in about 10 years I haven't made them. I just don't have the time right now..so maybe next year!!

more pics from Girls Night Out!!

Girls Night Out!!

Wednesday night was girls night out!! There were 8 of us girls going to see the Rockette's but first we went to dinner at this place called Boston's..they are known for their pizza and I have to agree...very good pizza. Then it was time for the show! The Rockette's were amazing to see live..I have seen them in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade every year but to see them live...wow!! The show was great..Santa was the narrator. The Rockette's had many dress changes..their costumes were so beautiful! I really don't have a fav..because I loved all of it!! I would diffidently recommend to see the show if you haven't seen it before or if you have. see it again...I know I will!!

Reesie loves her Barbie tree!!


Reesie was mommy's little helper wrapping gifts!!

where have I been?!?..you are wondering

OK so I know it has been a very long time since I have blogged but I have been very very busy!! First of all my parents were here for a little over two weeks...we had a great time with them!!:) Reese loved spending time with Grandma & Grandpa..I am glad they were able to spend that time with Reese..I think it is very important!! On Thanksgiving we went to Brian's parents house & my parents went to Vivian's son's house..(Brian & I are very good about rotating Thanksgiving with the Families). We had a good time with the Hoover's..Mike & Julie and the girls came in town... and Beth & Ryan & Grandma Hoover and Grandpa White were there. We played Wii.. it was a lot of fun. The food was wonderful..turkey was nice and juicy!! I was suppose to bring a app and pumpkin pies..everybody said they were delicious.
Then the next day was "SHOPPING DAY"!! My Mom & I go out together and shop & have lunch..it is something we have done together for about the last 18 years..wow where does time go!! We had a lot of fun together..we got a lot accomplished (mostly for Reese) :)
Then later that night we meant Donna & Gary & Cindy & Don over at D&B for dinner and games..OH GOSH..I almost forgot to included my brother ( he came in the Tuesday before Thanksgiving & left Saturday after Thanksgiving). We had a lot of fun that night.
For the rest of the time my parents were here we kept pretty busy..visiting family & friends. It was nice because when Brian and I had to work my parents watched Reese. We also put up the Christmas trees (we have our big tree in the living room and the other is a Barbie tree in Reesie's room..I have been collecting Barbie ornaments since 1983) and decorated the rest of the house for Christmas. We had a very nice long visit with them..we will see them the day after Christmas..we are going down to their house for a little over a week to have Christmas with them!:)