A Little Glimpse

Just wanted to share some pictures from our Christmas! Hope yours was very merry :)

Merry Christmas

From us, to you. I have gotten to the point where Christmas isn't all about the gifts and the parties. Yeah, that's fun. But for us it's about Jesus' birth, and spending time with family. I hope that you can enjoy that part of Christmas, too.



And if that beautiful picture didn't make your Christmas exciting enough, check out this page with coilovers. Really, what else could you need? ;)

I am Multicolored Lights

You are Multicolored Lights

Your holidays are a time for cheer and excitement. You love so much about the holidays, and everyone perks up a little from your happiness. You try to be grateful for what you have this time of the year. Even if things have been tough, you can't help but be joyful.

What Color Christmas Lights Are You?

Christmas Baking

I have been doing a lot of baking for Christmas over the last few days. I made five kinds of cookies. I always make a ton of Christmas cookies but I don't think I did last year because I had my hands full with a crawling/cruising baby. It was nice to get back into it this year. Here are my gingerbread men:


I also made a loaf of banana bread. It was my first time making bread. I got it a little too well done because the knife was still gooey when I stuck it in. Next time I will know better. Here is the recipe I used, and then the picture of my bread:

INGREDIENTS

* 1/2 cup margarine, softened
* 1 cup white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 1/2 cups mashed banana
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x5 inch pan.
2. Cream margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and soda, stirring just until combined.
3. Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 1 hour (or till toothpick comes out clean). Remove from pan and let cool, store in refrigerator or freeze.


Now I am going to have to do some serious fat burners and exercises because all this food is going straight to my hips, I promise! Jonathon can eat and eat, but not me :(

I am done, I think

With Christmas shopping. I just wanted to share. Because I have been seriously stressed about it. I am also starting to wonder what people (Jonathon, mainly) are going to get me. I haven't really dropped any hints at all for him this year. Although I did buy one of my gifts and then give it to him to wrap. Okay, two of them. But as long as he doesn't get me diet pills- don't even get me started on our conversation last week- I will probably be happy with whatever he gets me.

Scrapblog

I have found a new obsession- scrapblogging! You can make whole scrapbooks online and then get them printed. I bet everyone knew this except for me. Well, I knew about it but hadn't tried it yet. It's kind of tricky to figure out some of the stuff (or maybe it's a user problem) but it's fun. This is one of the first things I made, a signature for an online board.

My Grown Up Christmas List

You know how when you are a kid, you ask for stuff like Barbies and toys and games? Well now I am asking for stuff like vaccuums and kitchen faucets.

Our kitchen faucet really isn't too bad but if you get it at a funny angle, water drips out of the handle and down into the "Clean Side" of the sink. I'm sure there is probably a simple fix for that but my wonderful husband has yet to do anything about it. Maybe he could just fix our existing faucet for part of my Christmas gift??? Sweetie???

And I am asking him to read this over my shoulder and he's like "So you want me to fix it?" YES.

Don't Know Much About Philosophy

Really, I've never taken a philosophy class and don't want to. They did a philosophy section once in my Sunday School class and I wanted to pound my head in. But apparently I somewhat paid attention in my other subjects.

There Is 1 Gap in Your Knowledge

Where you have gaps in your knowledge: Philosophy Where you don't have gaps in your knowledge: Religion Economics Literature History Science Art

Do You Have Gaps in Your Knowledge?

My insurance woes

You know how I am mad about my health insurance? Well I have also been talking to my insurance agent about life insurance. We have a great policy on Jonathon (I actually told him---joking---that between his social security and life insurance that he better sleep with one eye open because I need some Christmas money, lol) and we have a little policy on me. Since i don't bring in much income anyway ;) Our insurance agent is trying to talk us up on that but you know how they are. One thing that I know we won't be able to afford is seniors life insurance. Well unless we are in a different financial situation then. But it costs SO much more to get insured once you are older. They are trying to get me to lock in at the "under 30" rates. Hey, I got two years left!

Thanksgiving

It's really not my favorite holiday. In my opinion, the food is blah. Not much taste to anything and I don't really care about turkey and mashed potatoes. Give me some pizza any day. We even did that one year when I was a kid, until I was embarrassed at school when we had to talk about our Thanksgiving dinner and stuff like that afterwards. One year (or maybe more than one) we also had turkey sandwiches.

I am not into football. When I was really little I liked to get up early and watch the Macy's parade with my dad. I think my mom was usually in the kitchen. When I got older, I tried to go out after dinner and at least do something fun. Now, I am sure that Bailey didn't even realize Thanksgiving was a holiday because all we did was have a dinner, and there were only ten of us there.

The best part in my opinion was the dessert. I am not a huge pumpkin pie fan, but I didn't realize that until this year when we didn't have whip cream to hide the taste. I was trying to be healthy and not have it in the fridge afterwards to tempt me. I love love love the pecan pie though. We couldn't get Bailey to try either one, but she was content eating a spoon of Cool Whip. There was just a little bit left in a container that my mom had, and she offered it to the pumpkin pie eaters.