Mmmm...chocolate

Last year, for the first time, I bought chocolate letters from the Dutch Shop. (www.thedutchshop.com) for the girls. This year I bought some for our former foster girls, and all of us. Here are some pictures.

Christmas Eve

Since we were 'stuck' at home, and eating out didn't seem right, I made dinner. Inspired by a recipe that no where near resembles my ending result (except for chicken), we had a very tasty meal for a whole lot less!

As a friend would say, it's a total fat bomb. I threw in 1/3 cube of cream chese, about 1/3 cup sour cream, a can of cream of mushroom soup and simmered the chicken in it for a few hours. Then when we decided to eat, I took the chicken out and fried it in olive oil, added slivered carrots, garlic and onions. To the cream sauce I added some rosemary, white wine and milk. Simmered some more. Put some spaghetti noodles on. Added wine to the chicken. Then in my new presentation dish from Paul, I layered the noodles, chicken, and sauce. Parsley was sprinkled for color. I have a lot of sauce let so we froze that. It was good. We ate it all because we couldn't have any leftovers. I think Curtis liked it!

The remodel

Since it has been a very long 5 years since the first remodel of Karen's room, we decided it was time for a re-do. Her new thing is TinkerBell. So away we went to the Depot for paint... TinkerBell green no less. Since our flight to Texas was cancelled and delayed until Tuesday, we used our time wisely.






She is very excited about it and has thanked me several times.

Santa Visits

Paul's work has an
annual Christmas party.

Catch up time!

It's been forever and a day since I have posted, and since some people may want updates at Christmas, here goes!!!

August.

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october

Karen's birthday in November.

Paul's birthday.

december

Juicy!

His first watermelon. Think he liked it?

Flowers

These flowers were at Fort Walla Walla.

German Heritage Day

Da! Today we joined the German Dancers (deutscher Tänzer) for the Heritage Days. We dressed up, had a practice, and danced our hearts out!

Carnival Rides

A nice gentleman offered to take our family picture.

We visit our entries at the fair.

Karen got a blue ribbon for her picture of Maggie. She got a total of 4 blues. Way to go!!

My quilt is the middle one. They said my border was too wide!! I did it that big to fit my bed!







Karen's Rockerpillar also got a blue.
Paul got a blue for his marigolds.

Just big kids at art.

Pastor and I started an art project at church. This is the entry to the nursery. We will do some more pictures inside. So far we are really pleased with how it is turning out. Thankfully Curtis took his naps during both days of painting, so it went very well.

FDOS

Karen's first day of 2nd grade. She's getting so tall!!!