A little boy's greatest wish

Jared would be absolutely thrilled to find some cheddar wrapped under the Christmas tree. We'll see if his presents can rival that...

Spencer and Sadey's San Francisco Soiree

My cousin Spencer got married and it
was
awesome.

Flying Kites

Life Training

It is important to teach your children skills.

Also, maybe he can take over doing dishes soon because I don't like them.

Holiday cooking

Since it is just almost officially winter I have started to prepare to hibernate. I've been baking foods with lots of sugar and butter so no one in my family will freeze to death.
Seriously though, I've been doing a lot of baking and it is dangerous!!!!!
In the past two weeks I've made the following treats:
Chocolate chip cookies
Pumpkin cookies
Pumpkin cookies again because the first batch "disappeared" to quickly
Rich egg bread
Cinnamon swirl bread
Cookie dough (without eggs)
Lebkuchen (fancy German spice cookies)
Buttery popcorn (about every other day)
French toast
And much much more!

I just love holiday food, but it can't go on like this. Good thing the Christmas season doesn't last all year long!!! I think I'll have to start gifting some of this baking!

I can't resist!

Jared has learned a new word- "Please." And now he can get just about anything he wants. He just looks at me with his sad face and says, "Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
Now we stay outside longer, eat more sweets, read more books and get into a lot more trouble overall.
But what am I supposed to do???


*I am currently trying to capture this on video!