Potty Pictures!

Just some soon-to-be embarrassing potty pictures!

Tis The Season

for lots of baking!

Here's what I've baked the past few days:
Saltine Toffee Candy

Chocolate covered oreos. I bought the molds at AC Moore. They were a pain, but are very yummy!

Chocolate covered Pringles. Yup, I said Pringles! Such a good combo of sweet, salty, and crunchy!

White Chocolate covered Ritz peanutbutter sandwiches...surprisingly so yummy!

The Chocolate covered pretzels being prepped!

Turtles, same as above except with rolos!

My make shift double boiler!

I needed extra room for the ingredients, so I dug out my ironing board!

Peppermint Bark...so easy melt white chocolate, add crushed candy canes, pour on sheet pan, let harden, and break into pieces!

Buckeyes, but I covered them completely with chocolate, because I thought they looked creepy the other way.

Buckeyes in their pretty boxes.

Amongst all the baking I forgot to photograph some of the food
Haystacks
Spiced Pecans
Reindeer Chow
Reindeer Cookie Bark (I used crushed oreos, pretzels, & M&M's in mine....this turned out so good!)
Seven Layer Cookies

All the food out for the assembling of the basket!

One Basket done! I used our homemade ornaments as the gift tags.

Other food I'm baking;

I'm making this cake for Christmas Eve (I'm using the holiday M&Ms.) I added the food coloring to make them more festive!

I also have a chocolatte cake baking to use in a triffle for Christmas day.
I plan on making Monkey Bread for Christmas morning, pigs in blankets and buffalo chicken dip for Christmas appetizers, and I bought a dairy free pie for Grace!

Snow

We finally got some really snow on Saturday!

Grace watching the snow fall.

Backyard.

Trying to open the front door.

Our driveway is under there some where.

The only crappy thing about the snow was that we don't have a shovel...oops! Luckily our neighbor let us borrow his.

Cookie Time

Friday we got together with the Brennans' for our Christmas-cookie-making-tradition (it's considered a tradition if you've done it twice, right?)

Grace helping roll the dough

and make shapes

Jackson and his poor red nose.

Jacob and Auntie.

Decorating is serious business!

Some of the cookies.

More decorating!

Cookies

The aftermath!

Potty Time

Today I ran to Ikea and grabbed Grace a $3 potty, just to start to get her familiar it. Tonight while I was changing her into her night time diaper I decided to sit her on the potty first. She sat down I handed her her milk she took a few sips and then got up. I went to put a diaper on, thinking she was just sitting on the potty, but nope she peed on the potty! I'm sure it was just a fluke, but oh my god! Cole and I both were so excited!

Cheese!

We finally bought Grace some slippers so that I wouldn't have to cut off any more of the feets on her pjs.

Grace modeling her slippers!

Big Laps

Big laps are good for one thing...filling with lots of love!