SNOW

We rarely and I mean like once a year have snow. So when I woke up last Saturday and saw snow i instantly woke up my children. They had a ball playing in the snow and cleaning off dads truck. I did not even mind that Grace was using one of my cloth napkins to clean dads truck tires.

dancing with daddy

I love when I capture these moments and hope they continue to happen. So I am posting these pictures although they were taken with a bad camera. Although dishes had not been done that day and the kitchen was a mess. Because I love that my husband will take time out of his day to dance with his daughters.

Peanut butter candy

these are how they are supose to look,




At our last moms night a friend brought these wonderful cookies. OOOH they were so good. So I harassed her until she shared the recipe. Made them and WOW, so easy and so yummy. Then I lost the recipe and had to harass her again. She has been so wonderful to me. When I was asked if I wanted to be in a cookie swap I of course said yes and knew exactly what I would make. There was just one problem the first batch came out flat, so I made it again and PERFECT. So I made another batch and they flopped and again, flopped and again perfect. In all I made 16 batches and got 11 dozen decent ones. I think I was not paying attention.
Here is the recipe
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 stick butter (thanks to my neighbors who let me borrow them last night)
1 stack ritz crackers (crushed)
1t vanilla
1cup peanut butter

1. boil butter, sugar and milk in sauce pan for 5 minutes (although i think 4 minutes worked best for my stove)
2. take off heat, add peanut butter, vanilla and crushed ritz crackers.
3. drop by spoonful onto wax paper and let cool.

can I just say that these are the best tasting cookies. no baking. sweat and salty and crunchy all in one.
I will definitely be making them again. Especially since I did not leave extra for my own family

santa pictures

We do not teach our children that santa brings gives. They do however love to set on his lap. To pretend he is the same as mickey mouse or blue's clue's. For me there are several reasons I do not like the kids believe santa. The biggest one is I like them to focus on the reason for the season. The second is that I have a amazing husband who works really hard for every penny he makes and if he is nice enough to buy gifts then I want him to get the credit.

Nutcracker

Every year the Huntsville Ballet offers a showing of the Nutcracker for free to the military. Every year we look forward to going and take along a friends children. These pictures are not from the nutcracker we saw because they asked that you do not take pictures and as much as I wanted to I obeyed. We took the kids to Jasons Deli before the show. I love watching the kids. I love watching how excited they are, how they get scared when the vilan comes out. I did giggle when the lambs came out and the little boy behind us asked if they were cats and at the same time Grace said are those monkeys. I love this show and am so appriciative that they do this for us.
www.huntsvillenutcracker.com