Things have been a little crazy around here lately. I haven't written about this yet because everything has kind of been up in the air, but it looks like Mike and I are shopping for a new house! Tiny house no more! So that is exciting and of course searching for houses has consumed alot of my time...besides MOMS Club events, toy parties, Christmas shopping etc. I managed to come up with a list of 25 houses to look at, but our realtor was on vacation and we were still trying to figure out how we wanted to handle our financing, so the list shrank to 19. The last 2 weekends we have driven by some of the houses on the list and edited (also shrinking our list). Hopefully we'll be out this week and actually get to see the inside of some of these houses.
Today is the big
MOMS Club Cookie Exchange. Renae has graciously agreed to host this event at her house. She may be sorry about that decision now. So far we have 17 moms signed up as "for sure's". With kids that means there are going to be
33 people in Renae's house plus a few extras she invited. Yikes! Wall to wall cookies! What was I thinking agreeing to this? Truthfully Mike talked me into doing this (not that there was alot of arm twisting). I think he wanted to make cookies again (there has been a pre & post pregnancy ban) and it was too hard to resist 16 other types of cookies. Here's a pic of Mike burning the midnight oil and baking 5-6 dozen cookies. The apron is mine but I let him borrow it. I taste tested the cookies & they are pretty good. Thanks for the recipe Mom Wade!
Finally we got our Christmas Tree this weekend. I am embarrassed to report that we opted for a fake tree this year. I am very
Pro real Christmas tree and normally the bigger the better. We decided that for 1 year only, since the tree area is so cramped, and since Rooney can reach pretty far these days a small, fake tree made more sense this year. I decorated the tree last night while Mike baked. I tried to make it look as pretty as possible. Since the tree is so small our tree topper did not fit. I had to improvise & put a picture of Courage and Rocco with Santa on top. Those ingrates. I don't think they even noticed.
Things have been a little crazy around here lately. I haven't written about this yet because everything has kind of been up in the air, but it looks like Mike and I are shopping for a new house! Tiny house no more! So that is exciting and of course searching for houses has consumed alot of my time...besides MOMS Club events, toy parties, Christmas shopping etc. I managed to come up with a list of 25 houses to look at, but our realtor was on vacation and we were still trying to figure out how we wanted to handle our financing, so the list shrank to 19. The last 2 weekends we have driven by some of the houses on the list and edited (also shrinking our list). Hopefully we'll be out this week and actually get to see the inside of some of these houses.
Today is the big MOMS Club Cookie Exchange. Renae has graciously agreed to host this event at her house. She may be sorry about that decision now. So far we have 17 moms signed up as "for sure's". With kids that means there are going to be 33 people in Renae's house plus a few extras she invited. Yikes! Wall to wall cookies! What was I thinking agreeing to this? Truthfully Mike talked me into doing this (not that there was alot of arm twisting). I think he wanted to make cookies again (there has been a pre & post pregnancy ban) and it was too hard to resist 16 other types of cookies. Here's a pic of Mike burning the midnight oil and baking 5-6 dozen cookies. The apron is mine but I let him borrow it. I taste tested the cookies & they are pretty good. Thanks for the recipe Mom Wade!
Finally we got our Christmas Tree this weekend. I am embarrassed to report that we opted for a fake tree this year. I am very Pro real Christmas tree and normally the bigger the better. We decided that for 1 year only, since the tree area is so cramped, and since Rooney can reach pretty far these days a small, fake tree made more sense this year. I decorated the tree last night while Mike baked. I tried to make it look as pretty as possible. Since the tree is so small our tree topper did not fit. I had to improvise & put a picture of Courage and Rocco with Santa on top. Those ingrates. I don't think they even noticed.
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Seeing this little guy always makes me smile....
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