A snowy day!

With the snow today, I thought that it was best to stay home. So what do you do on a snowy day?! But clean the house, so that's what Dave and I started with this morning. Then Cara and Fred stopped over for a visit and to exchange gifts.

Dave was very happy to get a break from cleaning.

Dave got a great helicopter and some mega blocks!He also got a special godson ornament from Cara.After Cara and Fred left, Dave and I finished organizing the garage. A project that has been lasting several weeks. I would say that we are now officially moved in (yes over a year for those you keeping track), but....i have one box of scrap booking stuff to unpack yet (which I guess doesn't really count cause I don't have the time to scrapbook anymore, but it still needs to be unpacked)

The completed garage!!!

Chuck E Cheese

We thought that it might be nice to take Dave to Chuck E Cheese's today. It was a good thing that we did, Dave was having a very lucky day!! He won 880 tickets!!!


This is one that Dave likes to play with me.

"I'm brave, I'm brave, I'm brave." Is what Dave kept saying as the roller coaster was going up the hill.Playing the Funky Monkey game with Daddy.A regular jockey he is.And of course we had to be a fireman, complete with hose noises!

Gift exchange with Caleb and Noah

Today, we invited Caleb and Noah over to exchange Christmas gifts. With all the festivities of Christmas we were able to finally get a date for the boys to get together. As you can see the boys had a fun time exchanging their gifts, this year we decided to have them exchange books again. After opening, all three boys enjoyed playing together, while Sara and I got a chance to catch up. It was a very nice morning, thanks for coming over boys!

Happy 2009!

From our family to yours we wish you a happy and healthy 2009!

Mmm....Apple Cake!

Apple Cake

Dry
2 cups white flour
1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Wet

2 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

4 cups apples peeled and finely diced

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup pecans or walnuts

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. In a large bowl cream together the sugar and vegetable oil, then add the apples, vanilla and eggs. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, then add the nuts. Pour it into a well-greased bundt pan and bake about 45 minutes.

Dave and I made this cake the other night, it was a recipe that I had found on a lactose free site, and it is actually very good!!!

The day after Christmas...

And this is what our living room looked like this morning. But I do have to say that by the end of the day it was starting to look a little bit more organized...toys are starting to find homes in the basement and Dave's room.

Christmas and Nan and Pop's house (Merry Christmas round 4)

After stopping home to drop off our presents from Beegee and Pies, we then packed up the presents for Nana and Pop and headed to their house to open gifts and eat dinner! Of course had to open presents right away, it's very hard to a three old not to open presents the minute he sees them. After opening presents we had my favorite meal of the year...a traditional English Christmas dinner....prime rib, with roast potatoes, carrots and turnips and Yorkshire pudding!


Dave opening the first present.

Transformer shaving cream!

Reaching into his giant bag to get out another present.

If I remember right this was a Transformer book.

Deciding which one he should open next.

Mee-mee and Pops opening their presents.

Even Copper had presents to open. Yes, she really does open her own presents!