Christmas

This year Christmas has been a little different. We have more money than we usually do so we got Rock Band 3. We even got each other presents so it was a good one this year. I did some more window paintings that turned out so good. This is them:

Candy Cane

 Turtle sleding down hill

 A man making a snow angel

Snow man with snow falling

 Santa bringing toys

 The North Pole but I took the picture on the wrong side

 Man in a snow ball

 Kid eating snow

I got Ben a train set, he has been wanting one for a while but he hasnt wanted to buy one cause he cant really set it up cause we move a lot. Ben got me two fairies for my collection of fairies and they are my first ones so that was way exciting, even though I have to put one away because it is a Christmas fairy. I got a lot of craft stuff to do fun things with candy gift cards books a really cute wallet. Ben got a lego book, cloths, candy, ice fishing poles, and other stuff.

We got my parents a fire pit for out side. Then we got Bens mom salt and pepper shakers ones hippies kissing and the other one is monkeys hanging from a tree, we then got James some movie, and Bens dad a book.

We miss you Cole

November 29 started out as a great day. I had the day off and so did Ben so we got to hang out all day. We didnt do anything special just hung around the house. Later that night I went and baby sat my nephew Landon. After that we went to our friends Dave and Karens house to play some games. Right before we got there we got a call from my sister-in-law Becky. Ben picked up the phone and I instantly knew that something was wrong, his face went all white and his mouth was open is shock. When he got off the phone he told me that Cole his sister Lindseys husband had past away that day.
Later that night we went and seen his family and hung out there everyday for about a week with all of my husbands siblings and his parents.
It is a horriable loss and I just want to end this by saying this. We all love you Cole and hope that you have found peace and love where you are now, we will miss you!!

Thanksgiving

I love thanksgiving and this year we had a chance to go to both sides of the family. My family did there thanksgiving on Wed. the 24th. I made 2 pumpkin pies and a pecan pie. We got to my parents at 2ish and helped set up then everyone came and we had turkey and ham and then all the other good stuff then watched movies, played games, and watched football. It was lots of fun!!!

This is the two pumpkin pies.

Then I had to work on Thanksgiving until 3 pm so I couldnt go to Bens dads house but I made him a carmel pecan cheese cake and let him also have some of the pecan pie. I did this because a couple of years ago we picked up Bens dad to go to Thanksgiving and he freaked out that we didnt have pecan pie so we had to stop on the way and pick one up.

This is the pecan pie

This is the pecan pie with whip cream on top!!

Then after work we went to Bens mom and step dads house. I made an apple pie for this one.

This is the apple pie!

Food

I have been trying this make everything from scratch thing. I have been doing it for 2 weeks now. I have made Lasagna, ribs, a noodle salad, stuffed green peppers, meatloaf, taco soup, rosemary chicken noodle soup, and pizza. I am very proud of this pizza because it is my first dough that I have ever made. So it was my first time ever using yeast so I think it turned out pretty dang good. I also made the sauce for this pizza. Then on my half I have pepperonis, green peppers and olives; on Bens half has pepperonis, anchovies, and olives. I will be posting more of my cooking adventures so hopefully they will all be good stories and not bad ones.

Thansgiving

I have always wanted to do window paintings so this year I decided to do them this year. So this is my first time ever doing it and I think it turned out pretty good.

This is a pilgram and his wife.

 Idians bringing some corn and other things from there gardens.

 Pilgram trying to get a turkey

And last is a turkey running away from the pilgram trying to shoot him.

New Bike!!

This is Bens new bike! We got it from a guy that Ben knows from work for only $400. So the story about gettting this bike is that the company Bens company works for decided to decrease the amount of contruction companies that work for them and so the guy who sold it to us was one of the companies that got taken out of the rotation for work. So the guy doesn't have any work any more so he needed a little extra cash. Then he also had just bought another bike and he couldnt justify having two when he wasnt working so he decided to sell his bike. He fist offered it to us for $600 but we couldnt affored to pay that so he then offered $500 which we still couldn't do. Then he said ok how about $400, so we decided that we were never going to find a deal like this agian and decided to do it. He has always wanted a bike so when he offered it to us so cheap we decided to do it. Ben doesnt know how to ride a bike yet, but he has been practicing and he is getting much better. I cant wait till next summer so we can take it out for rides!!

Our New Addition

This is Kyrra she is our newest member of our family. We picked her out on Saturday but we didnt get to pick her up till Monday because she needed to get fixed. She is only 3 or 4 months old. She has one of the longest tails I have every seen!! And she is way way cute!!