Merry Christmas 2012

Christmas this year was not about buyin each other gifts but about spending the day together... cooking a great dinner, baking Christmas cookies and just enjoying each others company.... Love my family so much and I'm so thankful/grateful we all get along so good... Family means everything ♥

Love sharing the kitchen with my honey

 I had lots of helpers with gettin Christmas dinner together...

 Keyarra peelin potatoes

 My sister just stirring the mash potatoes, 

acting like she made them, lol

Our momma mixing up the glaze for the ham

 Kay and Mark snuggling on the couch wait for dinner

It was so, so good.

(ham, cream cheese corn, broccoli/cauliflower rice cheese casserole, sweet potato casserole, mac. cheese, mash potatoes and hm bread... dessert was Christmas Cookies, Peanut Butter Fudge)

...Cookie Time...

 Keyarra makin me a special rooster Christmas cookie :)

 They LOVED the Peanut Butter Fudge I made this year... 

**** ChRiStMaS  DaY ****

 Christmas Morning... 

No matter what day it is, gotta go out and feed/water/love on my barnyard babies 

Merry Christmas Boys

This year Christmas morning was different... Kaylin wasnt here, she had spent the night with one of her friends on Christmas Eve and then had to work Christmas day.  I know as the kids grow up and start their own lives things are gonna be different with the holidays... we gotta start workin on different traditions. 

 Christmas day at Memaw and Papaws... 

I really love this pic of them.

Our Christmas pic without Kaylin :(

To My Sons... 

You outgrew my lap, but never my heart. ~Author Unknown

 My Guys 

Alex loves his cousin Dylan

  Alex playin with memaws Christmas train

 Alex LOVES memaws dancing snowman

 Andrew

 ... and Miss. Natalie snuggling up to me... tryin to butter me up.  She wanted to come home with us for a few days since everyone is on Christmas break... how could I say no, lol.  

I didn't need anything for Christmas this year because I have the greatest presents already, a wonderful husband, three wonderful children who I'm very proud of and a kind, fun, silly, loving family... I love that we all get along and love hangin out with each other... So Very Blessed!

Pumpkin Scones

While browsing blog world last night I came across this scone recipe  Gingerbread Scones  on Heritage Schoolhouse blog and told my honey I was gonna make them in the morning... well its morning and I realized I didnt have any molasses so I seen I had a can of pumpkin in the pantry... so why not make Pumpkin Scones.  I searched her blog and found this Pumpkin Scones recipe.  

I actually started out with the Gingerbread recipe and then just added the pumpkin pie spice, 1 more Tablespoon of brown sugar and 1/2 cup pumpkin.  Then after the baked and cooled alittle I mixed up powder sugar, milk, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice for the glaze... So So Yummy!

Secret Santa Tradition...

 A very sweet friend of mine sent me this cute Christmas Goody set last December, I then send her some Christmas goodies in the biggest tin... little did I know then that we were starting a Christmas tradition with each other... Today I received "Our Christmas Goody Tin" in the mail, filled with wonderful lil goodies.  It really put a smile on my face, something so sweet and little can bring much joy to a persons heart.  

I just love this...

ps Dear Secret Santa friend be on the look out for your happy mail... 

Coming Soon ;)

Beef Stew and Cheese Bread

These are older pics. but thought I'd share what I'm cookin for the family tonight... This stew and bread is so good, I've been making for acouple winters now, its from Kraftfoods.com Perfect Winter Beef Stew and the Cheese bread is a recipe I tried and liked from Allrecipies.com and if I feel like it I might just bake some cookies today. I have not baked one single Christmas Goody so far this year...