Cross stitch.

I made these little snowmen ornaments for Jim to give to his guys at work.

I FINALLY finished Jason's wolf for Christmas. I worked on it off and on for 2 years. Jim found an excellent frame and matting for it. If you click on it to enlarge it, it may show the detail better.

Ransom letter

We wanted James to come home for Christmas but he has an aversion to driving. Valerie tried to tempt him to come home by holding some of his gifts hostage. The price was a trip home. I guess we will have to mail the rest to him (or charge him storage-hehehe).

Open house at work

It was hard to get a picture of the llama as it kept wanting to move a lot.
Valerie getting her hand painted (candy cane design) instead of her face.

Jim doing the "child's identification" packet. (fingerprint, pictures, etc. in case a child becomes missing)

There was an open house for the families of WalMart at Jim's place of work (warehouse). We went and got free balloons (standard policy wherever there are kids), door prizes, pizza, donuts, and a petting zoo.

December's Memories

He looks like he is enjoying this way too much!

Jason's Birthday ~ Christmas Eve

Gifts and cash for computer. Of coarse Victoria is not far away. We try to celebrate Jason's birthday early since Christms eve is a bit busy. This year's celebration date was Dec 3rd.

Sheri and Valerie decorated the cake.

Christmas Cookies

These went into the freezer.

These pictures are all backwards--sorry. Valerie and I spent 4 1/2 hours baking cookies the other day including clean up time. :) We've only done this about 3 Christmas seasons. We froze the bulk of them to pull them out as we eat the ones in the cookie bowl.

Doris sampling the end results.Lemon Squares before the powder sugar topping.

We kept a few of each kind out to eat.

Getting ready

Mixing the dough

Finding toys for Victoria

Here Victoria is loving Val's bear.

Toys for Victoria

Since we haven't had little ones around our house for a looooong time, we had to be resourceful. We ran the mouse through the dishwasher so she could chew on it

Valerie's "underwear"

This is the hoop skirt Val made with a sheet and pvc pipe--(or is it pcv???). Any way, it took her and her father long enough to figure how to connect it properly for a skirt.

Funny new face!!!

Victoria has discovered a new face. We think maybe she is feeling her new teeth on the inside of her mouth. She now has 4 of them--teeth, not mouths. Hehehe! It cracks us up every time she does this.

Visiting Grandpa at work

Victoria is giving (see the co-operation) Grandpa a thank you for his help in siding their house--a computer--actually the box description. The gift was at the house waiting for him to get home from work.