Christmas Vacation with the Grandkids

Axel likes to help with cooking. Helped to make some gingerbread cookies, he like doing acorns. He later dipped them in chocolate and sprinkles.

We took Axel, Sally's kids and a friend to see The legend of Gal.....that owl movie. Axel was laughing & cheering them on. We have a dollar movie here, I got the entire group in for $8. I packed sandwiches, bottled water & candy canes and smuggled them in. We had a tight squeeze in the truck, but we did manage to get 8 including carseat into it & everyone was belted in. Not sure how legal it was, but we only have the one vehicle, thankfully it's BIG.
After the movie we came back and dipped pretzel rods in chocolate & sprinkles. And made some oreo & pretzel bark.
Damon crushed candy canes for toppings, gotta figure out how to rotate pictures
We got a new wii game, Party. Saturday Hunter, Damon, Oscar & Diego played with us. Actually we needed them to show us how to play it. They are playing Time Bomb here. It was fun to watch them. We need a couple of adults to play with us so we might have a chance to win.

Jake's Quilt

When we were Washington last summer we visited friends on Vashon Island. The best quilt shop I have ever been to is there....Island Quilters, duh. The eye candy in this store can compete with See's anyday. I knew I would have to satisfy my craving. Jodie said Jake would like a quilt. We decided lizards as a theme, but camo colors......these were my choices.

I searched the net for lizard ideas and found these little guys.

The iguana.

Incidentally, the next day I bought several more colorful pieces for another project, to be determined at a later date.

December Activites

We have been doing a variety of things to enjoy the Christmas festivities.

We took Brody, Stephanie and Axel to see the Prairie Lights. It's a drive-thru light display.

Axel got to ride the carrousel 3 times. The lights excited him. There's nothing quite like seeing things at Christmas with a 3 year old.

Our ward had a Texas Christmas. There was plenty of smoked brisket and fixin's.

Hunter brought her friend Dominque and both had a chat with Santa.

Diego and Oscar let Santa know what they would like from him.

Larry has been wanting to make homemade sausage for some time.

We bought a pork shoulder, Larry had to cut it down, grind and season it, figure out how to stuff the casings. And lastly smoke them. After 2 days of work we have some very tasty sausage.
Every year that I have lived in Texas, Kelly and I have had a Christmas party. Usually we have an ornament exchange, but this year we changed it to a themed gift basket, you choose your theme. We had a good turn out, very yummy treats and lots of fun baskets.
This year it was at my house, next year Kelly's. Ummmm what will we exchange then?