Happy Birthday Kaytlyn

Saturday was Kaytlyns 8th Birthday!!! We celebrated at Grandma & Grandpa Saldanas house. Lots of fun and she made out pretty good. It must be nice to have your birthday so close to Christmas(double gifts in the same month..yipeee)  Her cake was Strawberry Shortcake and was fun to make, I included a waterfall because of a picture I had seen and put strawberries around the bottom (it took me 4 hours to decorate because it's mostly fondant, but worth every minute) Happy Birthday baby girl, I love you!!!!

Santa Clause is coming to town

Saturday was the Christmas Parade, Tree lighting ceremony, and Christmas show here in our town. It was cold so we warmed ourselves with yummy hot cocoa(topped with whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate of course). The best part was Santa of course. Joey did good this year, and actually took a picture with him. The kids had a blast running after the candy canes that were thrown from the floats, waving to their friends and rolling down the little hills in the park.

Tree Time

We were going to get a real tree this year, but as we were bringing out the decorations from the garage, our little guy saw the fake tree that we have and insisted on putting it up. It's hard to resist that sweet little face. Well here it is, decorated by joey. The glow to the right is actually a polar bear, I couldn't get a clear shot.

Let's call him snoopy!

That's right, we have a snooper in our house!! Joey went snooping around in Sarahs room ( which he never usually does ) and found his present from her. She got him a really cool Mongoose bike (I told her to put it at Grandmas house). Joey and I were in the family room, Sarah was in the kitchen and all we heard were the screams of joy and this "Sarah, you got me a new bike for Christmas?" We just started laughing, what else can you do. This was about 10 O'clock at night when he should have been in bed, you naughty little boy. He was so desperate to ride it that he grabbed my running shoes and we let him ride in on the patio for a bit, dinosaur jammies and all.

Since school is on an early break, we made early Christmas goodies for his class and teachers. Peanut butter fudge, Russian Tea cakes, Candy Mounds (yummy) Ginger Bread Cookies,and Vanilla Cookies with sprinkles. We also made a book for his Teachers with a poem on front and the recipes for the goodies inside. It was a hit!!! It was alot of work, but well worth it.

3-D picture

 Here is the 3-D picture I was talking about. Hopefully she will get another one later in her pregnancy. I took this picture with my phone so it is not very clear, but i can tell the umbillical cord is right above her head. Pretty cool.

Happy Halloween

We made some goodies for Joey's class and teachers for Halloween.   We made chocolate covered pretzels, rice crispy treats and put in candy and spiders, snakes and zombies. We had alot of fun, and he especially loved giving them out!!