We are back in business............

There is lots to come. Mostly our family vacation with a few of our friends to the beach and a visit to the "Happiest place on Earth".
All the pictures are coming. There are so many of them and for Kyla, Jimmy, Joey and Natalie, Tre' wants you to see EVERYTHING!!!!! I am working on doing a few collages so, please don't give up and check back soon.

Tis the Season.............

This year there was no hesitation, Tre' plopped himself right in Santa's lap.
Earlier this month Tre' wrote a letter to Santa letting him know what he wanted. He was told that if he wrote a letter he could take it to Yaya's and drop it in the "letters to Santa" ornament that she had. So, we did, and it magically disappeared making it to Santa's house!
The best part is, Santa wrote a letter back. I wish I would have recorded the look on his face when I showed Tre' the envelope addressed to him from Santa......... AWESOME!

He really wants a bike,tractor and a green lightning McQueen.
When we told Tre' that there are no green Lightning McQueens, he is red. His quick response was "Santa will paint it green". I hope he comes through or that Tre' forgets.

We showed up at Papa Joe's and Stacy Grandma's while Paul finished up his studies. When we arrived Papa was making sugar cookies and we all know Tre' loves to help. He jumped right in.



We are partying it up at Yaya's! Rockin around the Christmas tree and making gingerbread houses.
One of my favorite traditions that Yaya has started is to do gingerbread houses with the grandkids. I enjoy this cause all the adults get to be together while the kids decorate and eat candy to their hearts content.
This was such a fun night with the whole family. Thanks for the good times and great dance moves :)

Cookies

The new kitchen aid allows Tre' a little more freedom in the cooking world. Until you add the flour that is. :)

The FEasT.................

Here is the happy family...............
The awesome table decorations. Thanks Stacy for the glitter pumpkin.
MMMMMMMMMMMM! I don't think that we missed a thing.
Cleaning out the bird. The stuffing, the one thing I looked forward to was the one thing that did not goes as hoped. Already can't wait for next year when Wendy makes it. I know it will be all that I had HOPED for this year.
oH dAD
The master at his finest! As a young girl thinking about traditions and things I looked forward to seeing my own husband do, cutting the turkey was one of them. Why, I don't know but, here it is.......
Hope you all had as Happy a Thanksgiving as we did!

THanKsGIVINg WITH THE AceNUts-- PREPARATION

This Thanksgiving was to be spent with my mom. (we switch off every other year between my family and Paul's) There have been a lot of changes through this year for us as a family. One of those changes was my Dad getting re-married. So, with the holidays coming I wanted nothing more than to not have to split the day between Dad/Mom so in hopes of things going my way I thought I would attempt inviting them all to dinner at my place...............
Believe it or not it was a TOTAL SUCCESS!!! I could not have been happier with Thanksgiving this year.
We has quite the feast at our place and we did the turkey and homemade stuffing. Yes, homemade stuffing.
When we do Thanksgiving with Paul's family the stuffing is the one thing that I look really forward too. We always go to Brent and Wendy's the night before to help prepare and do lots of stirring to get it to it's perfection and we wanted to bring this tradition in to our own home.
I love that it making traditions of our own we LOVE traditions that come from our own families and want to incorporate those. It is a good feeling!
Thank you to our parents for these yummy and memeorable traditions to become part of our own.
This is the preparation of the turkey. Tre' helped get the turkey bag ready by shaking up the floor and putting in the celery. Dad stuffed the turkey, and I took the pictures :)

P.S. getting a turkey ready is DISGUSTING!!!!

Wants to be like Dad

Kitchen Aid=LOVE

I am so INCREDIBLY happy about this new addition to my house. When I got home I heard yelling from the kitchen "mom, mom, hurry get in here, we need your help." I said "okay, I am coming, is everything okay?" They both said "hurry, come here" when i got in there they said "hurry up and mix dinner we are hungry" ha ha ha and this is what was wrapped up waiting for me on the counter.
This was an early Christmas present for me cause we are hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. I am very excited about this but was not quite sure how I was going to pull everything off by hand, (literally) for the first time. Now, I don't have too. Paul was getting a little worried for me too. Thank goodness he was cause now I get to make Thanksgiving in my kitchen-Aid.
For the record I am not a bad cook just need a little help along the way. :)
So, so far waffles and snicker doodles have been made in my new kitchen toy with many more things to come.
I love you Paul and Tre'. Thanks a million.