Christmas warmth

Here are some photos of the new warmies I got for Christmas!

The hoodie is the trade in for the watch from Karen

The wool coat is from Scott

I made the scarf with yarn and loom from Nancy

Thanks to all... I love it!

Santa's Little Elves

Scott, Manni, and I have been busy the last few days....

We harvested parts from a junky old train set we got for $1

at a garage sale and created darling little wood trains

that go with his wood track. Now I can throw that other

track away!

Cows milk

Soren had his first taste of cows milk today because I was busy throwing-up. Stupid food poisoning!

Pancakes

I was introduced to a new recipe this past fall and I have used it so many times I decided I needed to share it. This recipe starts with whole wheat grain so it is really good for you since the fresh ground wheat hasn't had most of its' nutrition degraded by sitting around on the shelf.

Blender Wheat Pancakes

(from my friend Tawnya)

In blender add:

1 c whole wheat grain

1 c milk

Blend on high for 5 minutes.

Add:

2 eggs

2 t baking powder

2T sugar OR honey

1/2t salt

2T oil

Blend until all mixed together and then cook like a regular pancake.

Okay, now go try it! What else are you going to do with all that wheat? :)

officially a non-hippie

To all those out there who have accused me of being a hippie over the years I have officially proved myself otherwise. If you'll notice below my "peace sign" patch is a little off. I changed the mercedes logo into a peace sign this morning! Thank you craigslist...without your bookmark bar logo I never would have realized that i had done it wrong :)

Snow Day

No work today due to snow in Lubbock so I

decided to catch up on some mending. Here

are Manni's new patches. I did all the stiching

freehand on the machine. They turned out

so cute and old school.

Soren turns 1

The 1 year old not so chunky monkey!

(from off the charts to 97th to 95th and

now only the 78th percentile)

Our little baby boy moments before taking his 1st steps!

He is a full fledged walker now...we spent tonight playing

red light green light (Soren kept winning!)

Albuquerque 2011

We spent New Year's weekend in Albuquerque.

We went to the children's museum, rode the tram,

snowboarded at Sandia Peak, and just played in the snow.

It was very fun, we'll go back for sure!

Manni and Daddy working the circuit board at Explora.

Taking the tram up to Sandia peak (kids ride free!)

Soren seconds before crying to be picked up.

The blob I'm holding is Soren...

Remind anyone but me of "A Christmas Story"?

Thanksgiving 2010

Here is a shot from the family pics we got last Thanksgiving.