Happy-After-The-Holidays!

Simple Christmas beauty!

Love when my daughter brings home a large Poinsettia from work each year. It is gorgeous.

Sweet little Christmas baby. Such a little doll.

Hauling in the tree from off of our property!

HA! Loving that face.

No matter how old you are, Christmas is still full of surprise, delight, love and warmth.

Such a good time for our family...oh, with a special phone call from our daughter who is serving a mission for our church. So great!

We "still" have only had one good snowstorm this winter season. Just enough snow for tractor sledding.

Good times!

Sorry for the blurrrrrr! But, loved the chance to play tennis a few times.

Jenna held her own against the boys!

And....there had to be time for PIE! Made a graham cracker crust. Can't see it in this picture, but, the sugar sparkled in this crust. It baked up so nicely...very pretty!

Yummy first layer. 4 ounces cream cheese, 1 T sugar, 1 T milk. Mix with a wire whisk until smooth. Then, add in 1 and 1/2 cup of cool whip. Pour and spread onto crust.

Next, mix together 1 cup milk, 1 can 16 ounces canned pumpkin, 2 boxes (4 serving size) of instant vanilla pudding and pie filling, 1 t ground cinnamon, 1/2 t ground ginger, and 1/4 t ground cloves ( or I use 2 t of pumpkin spice).

Put in fridge for a good 4 hours before serving....if you can wait that long-ha! Doesn't always happen that way at our house. So delicious.

More holiday happenings and fun to come. Was such a nice 2 weeks for us all!

Happy 2011 to us all!

Christmas has arrived!

Christmas has arrived a little early at our house! HA! Things seem a little brighter and little more cheery.....loving this little baby grand daughter of ours! She is so sweet! Like candy......well, sort of...and speaking of candy......

Mary See's dropped by today. I was wondering why I have never really gotten into making delicious chocolates at holiday time. Then, it came to my mind......

Our entire family, we are See's Candy fans from way back when! Just look at these beauties!! Yum! Looks like someone has already been enjoying a taste or two...empty candy wrapper. Hmmm! Mary See's, does it again! Delicious!

Happiest of Holidays to you and yours! xoxo

Sydney and Jenna

Christmas Treats

A perk about living in Las Vegas are the SHOWS!

This weekend we went with our good friends to see Andrea Bocelli on his Christmas tour. SO well worth it. Here we are with him..

There was a violinist alone who made the ticket price worth it as well as 2 other female soloists who accompanied Bocelli as he sang. A great night of music!

On Sunday it was time to get to work...


Time to send some goodie bags with Aaron to work..on the agenda this year was Ginger Snap Softies, Oreo Truffles and "Reindeer Feed" (only instead of white chocolate and peppermint I used peanut butter, chocolate and powdered sugar.
























Apparently, the Oreo truffles were a big success..I'll post the recipe later this afternoon! Or, if you have time now, it's on Sister's Cafe. On the left they have all of their holiday treats so be sure to check those out if you need more yummy holiday ideas.

Weekend Wonders!

What a great way to start the weekend. Fresh juice really hits the spot!

Out to the Christmas Tree Farm to meet dear friends. Nice chilly day to tromp around the tree farm seeking "the perfect tree".Saws and wagons for cutting and hauling "the perfect tree".

Making way.....or making fun along the way!

...and some more fun! Gotta have fun!

FRIENDS!!!!!

Eureka! "The perfect tree"!

Calling out encouragement and support..until it is realized....

...this job is going to take two.

Timmm--berrrr!

"The perfect tree" is loaded up and we begin to haul back to the barn. Job well done!

I so love this next part...the tree is put into this small machine and shook like crazy to get rid of excess nature and such. Prepping for the wrap.

Straight through the tree machine. All neat and tidy and ready for the ride home.

Strapping "the perfect tree" to the car.

Friends head home, my son and I head into the barn to warm-up, look at all the beautiful homemade ornaments, wreaths, etc. We leave taking the cutest small 'free' red apples to munch on as we happily head home.

And then, it happened. Finally. Welcome snow. Wonderful winter weekend!

How was your weekend? Busy times...wonderful times. xo

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