Merry Christmas!!

To all who didn't get a card I want you to know that it was a Doyle issue.  We underestimated the amount we would need!  So, enjoy this.  Not as good as a hands on one, but better than nothing. 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!

First Snow

Yesterday was a crazy weather day here in the Northwest.  It went from blue skies and sunshine to snow in the quickest I have ever seen.  We happened to be at girl scouts down in Glenhaven, so we got to enjoy some snow!

I decided that I couldn't resist taking pictures of my boys even though they had no warm clothes.

Caleb wanted to taste the snow and he used a rock to do it.

By the time girl scouts was over the skies had cleared and everything was melting. The day in weather continued in its weirdness by raining, sun shining, and snowing.  So while it didn't last long we have had a first official snow!

Cake pops

Cake pops...... what can I say.  They are super yummy and a SUPER pain in my behind.  Okay, that might do more with my personality than the actual difficulty level, but man!  My kiddos LOVE cake pops and so I decided it would be fun to try our hand at it. 

I did like any mom and requited a friend for the ride.  I never realized you didn't need a special something to make them.  Other than a special, sweet, patient heart.  One I don't always have. 

I saw this post on a friends blog and away we went.  I must say that the one thing I tend to lack is a plan ahead kinda mind.  Turns out it is better with cake pops if you have that kind of mind. 

I was very glad in the end and I think the  kids were too! 

This is Josh yelling "For Narnia!"  his most favorite quote. 

A little while after we had some cake that was either going bad or needed to get eaten, so....... 

Cake balls!  I like them much better than cake pops.  There was no stick I had to try and get to stay put!  A small side note.  To get around the entire out of space picture thing I have added Jeff as an author.  He isn't really writing, but now I get a new round of storage space!  Thanks Amy for the awesome tip!

Missing Photos

I can finally share some of the photos that were missing from my Thanksgiving post.  I just think they are too cute not to post.

Because I thought you should know......

...just how good a guy my hubby is.  Our anniversary started with a trip for coffee and ended on beautiful Lummi Island, but it is all the in between stuff I plan to share.  We started off with a trip through a coffee stand. While waiting for our coffee one of the workers snuck around behind our car and came to my window. He presented me with a bouquet of white daisies. He said they represented the first three years of my marriage. Instead of a card they held movie tickets. I had expected to spend the day Christmas shopping so I was happy.  We ran around till our movie and then enjoyed a nearly empty theater and to much popcorn for our own good.  As we headed out the manager of the theater stopped me with a purple bouquet of daisies. He said they represented the next three years of our marriage. As we left a worker offered to take our picture. We stepped out and I looked up to see instead of the name of movies a message from my hubby. It said Happy 9th anniversary Ruth, love Jeff. I was blown away! We killed time and then headed to Lummi.  For those of you who don't know that is where we got married. My dad lives out there and let us stay in his studio apartment.  W had a yummy dinner where Jeff gave me a poem he wrote. Jeff then took me to where we were married. He popped the hatch of his car and played our wedding song. We danced in the parking lot under a full moon! Movie worthy! He then presented me with my final bouquet of yellow daisies. Yep, it was one amazing day!  And now I hope all of you can see what an amazing man my hubby is.  And if I was really cool I would some how put Jeff's mini movie of the day here, but I am not......