First popsicle and our week...

I made these cookies last week as a trial run for the cookies I made for Taylor's school xmas party earlier this week.  These ones have frosting on them but the ones I made for school were with melted white chocolate and they both were yummy!

This girl sure has a sense of style huh? lol, it must be too warm in our house. She's always putting on shorts or tank tops.. goofy. And her sister's boots. Yes, she has her own boots.

Watercolor painting

Hailey took this picture of me, I'm getting brave and letting them try out the camera once in awhile highly supervised of course.

We played at Grandma & Grandpa P's again while the guys hunted. Reading books...

Painting...

Playing with Grandma's Tupperware...

(one of Taylor's paintings..love it :)

and making a gingerbread house. First time we've done this, I bought the kit awhile ago but hadn't put it together so we brought it along.

The girls thought it was pretty cool

and then we all ate some, Hailey ate the gingerbread man, Taylor took a bite of the tree and a few candies, and I had a few candies. Not sure what else was snuck off but didn't look like we damaged it too much!

Playing dr

Grandma was trying to put medicine in their belly buttons, lol

Cheeseball, I needed a picture for a couple projects and this is the smile I got, cutie pants

Aiden anxiously waiting for his turn in the bath, he is so funny.. he stands there and lifts up his legs one at a time like one of these days he's gonna just climb in. :P

finally mom!

I was hiding behind a little table

There you are!

First lick of a popsicle, LOL

Yummy! He only had a few licks but thought it was pret-ty good!

Give me that

Playing with our friends

Taylor had $3 grab bag in her class and this is what she got from her friend Karli (she told her which bag to grab, haha)

Aiden was searching for this book, says his sister. It is almost like, yeah, that's the one I was looking for!  He has started emptying the bookshelf at least once a day... fun...

and these are the spritz cream cheese sugar cookies I made for daycare moms, Taylor's teacher and Lorna.. along with projects. I have a newfound respect for my mom making these all these years, they are kind of a pain but so good!

waving at Cooper

Don't think I posted this on the blog yet.. playing in his sister's bed while Mommy was changing sheets.. kind of blurry on my phone camera but still love the look on his face!

Have a good weekend everyone and Merry Christmas!

Early Papendorf Xmas and then some...

Aiden went to the dr again last week and got some ammoxicillin for his bacterial bug that's been bugging him for a couple weeks.. dr said probably a sinus infection but hard to tell.. nasty diapers, coughing that made him throw up etc... but he's been doing better after a couple days on the meds.. still coughing but not as much or throwing up and now just stinky medicine diapers but not green so that's good.  This picture of him was at the dr. He loved the baby in the mirror :)

This picture of Aiden and Taylor was after her concert.. ready for bed anyone?

A sure sign of a good nap.. check out that bed head.

Aiden's in baby jail now that I moved his bed down to the bottom level.. but at least now he won't fall out!

We brought up the barn playhouse from the basement and all of the kids are having a ball with it, but it is the perfect size for Aiden.

Check out this goofball drinking her hot cocoa at Grandma P's house

Aiden was crinkling paper while the girls were coloring, painting, etc...

We had our xmas with the Papendorfs this weekend as it doesn't work any other weekend for various reasons this month

The kids were very excited for some new toys and clothes :)

Taylor and Chris clowned around all night

Auntie Shelley and Aiden :)

The cutie girls playing with their new barbie swimming pool yesterday in some of their new clothes

Taylor had to take a picture since I got my hair cut yesterday, haven't gotten used to it yet but I do like it. Needed a change.

It's been a busy Monday here.. cleaning up from the weekend and trying to get ahead of laundry and dishes, etc... I'm sure it'll be another fast week and Ben's xmas dinner party on Friday night.

Taylor First Xmas Concert

Taylor had her first xmas concert this evening at Menasha High School auditorium. Some of our family gathered to watch :)

Our sweet little reindeer :)

This was one of the songs they sang.. thought it was cute!



"Mittens & Gloves, gloves and mittens.

Soft and warm just like kittens (meow!)

Keep my fingers nice and snug.

Cozy as a big bear hug (roar!)

I will not forget them when it's really chilly.

I would be too freezy. That would just be silly!"

Repeat :)

Picture People Photos and more

We took the kids to the Picture People for a great deal this weekend, couldn't pass up since we haven't done them in a couple years! 

 This top one will be our holiday card

This one of the 3 of them will be the one on our wall and what we give to close relatives

This one of Taylor for our wall

This one for our wall :)

We got this one for our wall of Aiden

and this one for relatives

Here are some other pictures from this week.
The girls change their clothes several times a day.. think they get bored with their dressup clothes or whatever! They're always saying they're putting on a fashion show :)  Hailey posing... 

playing in the crib and showing off his teeth, love Hailey in the background lol

getting Mama

Aiden helping Daddy empty the dishwasher... first time for both these guys..lol :)