Cottage Cheese.... the new Ranch.

When I was a kid/teenager, I remember dipping everything in Ranch! I would dip my roast beef in ranch, rolls in ranch, etc. Yummmmm!!!

Well, today, cottage cheese was all the rave at our house. Terek mixed his with tomato soup.

Joren dipped cookies in his cottage cheese.
Brenner made a sandwich with a fruit sticker on top and bottom and cottage cheese in the middle.
Lily (our neighbor) dipped tortilla chips in hers.
Seriously, gross, but I had to go to the store to buy more cottage cheese because they loved it so much!!!

Top Ramen

A couple of nights ago I made stir fry with Top Ramen noodles.  All my boys gobbled it up!!!

The 24th Day of Christmas

I can't believe it's Christmas Eve!!!
My family always went out to eat on Christmas Eve. We chose Denny's because we knew it would be open. Here's the kids in their new Christmas PJ's. They were so excited about them!!!

We hope you sleep well tonight!

We left food for the reindeer and Santa! Hopefully they find our house tonight!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

The 16th Day of Christmas

Today we made our neighbor gifts. I'm going to spare you the gory details of how rediculous these things were to make (sorry Libby, they weren't fun). Next year I'm making something easier. Oh, by the way, they are oreo truffles.

The 3rd Day of Christmas

I volunteered to host the dinner portion of our progressive dinner. (Yes, I know I'm crazy). So, that was our 3rd day of Christmas activity becuase I knew I'd be spending most of the day cleaning and preparing... sorry no fun for the kids. Here's a picture of the quiche that I made.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great weekend. It was so nice to have Ryan home for 4 days. The morning of Thanksgiving, Shellie and I went to a movie. (I already posted on that). When I got home, it thought it was so nice outside so, we took the kids to the lake to throw rocks in the water and stopped at a park to play as well. (I love living in Daybreak)

We had a nice quaint Thanksgiving Dinner with Lucas and Shellie. (Apparantly I only thought it was important to take pictures of the food).Brenner wanted to be like Tom (on Tom and Jerry) and eat the Turkey leg. On Friday, we got together with Ry's family for pizza, snacks, games, and kids running around like crazy. (Again, I'm not doing so well with taking pictures right now... what is my problem?????)

On Saturday we had a shower for my soon to be sister-in-law, Sara. She is a cute girl and we're excited to have her in our family. Dane and Sara stayed at our house and had fun being attacked by my crazy boys... they are great birth control!

I really missed seeing my mom on Thanksgiving and I hope she gets well soon.

My Veggie Boy

I just love that Brenner loves vegetables. If we go out to eat at a place like Rumbi or Panda Express, he always chooses a side of vegetables. And he loves the good stuff like zucchini and broccoli. (He did not get that from his Dad).