Elle the Baker

My niece Elle loves to bake. She made us these little "hamburgers" out of chocolate chip cake and cornbread! YUMMY!! This little cuties are quite dangerous because it's SO easy to walk by and pop one into my mouth (many times) throughout the day!

Here's Elle when she's not baking. Hopefully she's not making any turnovers...
GET IT? HAHAHA!!!

Christmas Day!

I am so behind on postings, but I'll try to catch up. Let's see...so we had our first Christmas morning in our very own house!

First glimpse of Santa's gifts in the living room...

Deciding which present to open first. (I wish I wasn't in the pic, but my "ghastly morning look" isn't too far from my normal "rest of the day" look anyway! haha!).
After opening Santa's gifts and playing with the new toys for a while, we got ready and headed over to Grandpa & Grandma's (my parents) to meet up with the rest of my side.

Finally got all the cousins together for a nice pic. Now we just have to work on getting ALL of us in a picture together!

And then there was a lot of Rock Band going on in the family room. This is my brother in law Doug. Engineer by day, drummer by night.

Christmas Play

Cody was in his first play which was called "Little Lost Kitten". He played an alley cat, which meant I had to run out and get that black turtleneck at Target. It reminds me of Dieter's Dance Party from SNL. Thank goodness Russ didn't get his sweat bottoms in the pic, since they are slightly too small (floods!)!

I was really impressed with this little production! I can't imagine wrangling THREE kindergarten classes into a show! Cody wasn't as animated as some of the other kids, until he spotted Tanner in the audience and told Alex (the boy standing next to him), "There's my brother!" I love that Alex said, "Where?" instead of telling Cody to be quiet! This was all while the cast was singing a song!!!

That's a wrap! Smooches!

Tanner is 4!

My baby is getting older! Tanner turned 4!
We celebrated in L.A. on Saturday,

(at Chuck E. Cheese with Grandma)

and we celebrated at home with my family yesterday, which was his actual birthday. There is no Thomas the Tank Engine on top because slacker mommy forgot to order a cake before we left for L.A.!

Here he is on his birthday in 2006, right after getting home from a nice Chinese dinner. He looks like some drunk at karaoke night.

More Paper Love

OMG! Totally in love with this little notebook (even though it's not lined!)! It's called the Happy Hermit journal/notebook by APAK Studio! They have a bunch of items for sale on Etsy that I love!!!

The Candy Man

I came into the living room and saw this...

He dumped all his Halloween candy on himself. It makes me think of those movies where a person wins the lotto or comes across a huge suitcase full of money. In their excitement and joy, they take that money, dump it on their bed and roll in it. This must be how Tanner feels after Halloween. Like he just hit the candy lotto. Although, I'm not sure if I remember the person in the movie removing all clothing except diapers before rolling in the dough.
P.S. The reason he has only a diaper on is that he had just dumped a bucket of water on himself in the backyard.
P.P.S. And don't ask me about that creepy pose he's doing. He was like that when I entered the room. I just grabbed the camera and said, "Look at meee!"

Our Mushroom Room

Here is the infamous mold room. The roof has been replaced. Mold remediation has been performed. Drywall, windows, recessed lighting and a new sliding glass door have been installed. Now we just have to find a paint color, paint it on, have carpet and laminate flooring installed...and then we'll finally be living in the whole house! YAY!