Cookie Exchange

My MOPS group has an annual cookie exchange and the past two years I have hosted. It is fun to get ready to have hundreds of cookies delivered to my house.....if only I could keep them all!

All the cookies look so good, I am ready to dig in!

Look at all these goodies!!!! Yum!

 These were my cookies. I made the same ones I did for the ugly sweater party. It seems that I do one cookie a year and make it a million times. These are super good though.

 

Our elf SAM

 With a 6,5,2 and 1 year old we have had lots of fun this year. Sam brought them come mini candy canes straight from the North Pole

 He also decorated on our sweet girls birthday

 Sam found a nice spot for a snack

 A bit of skating in the back yard

 He must really wanted to be apart of this family

 These are from last year, but ideas we'll do once again closer to Christmas day

Birthday fun

The last part of Taylynn's birthday was taking her and a friend to see Madeline's Christmas, a local musical. 

Taylynn took her friend Makenna and we went to dinner, the show and then out for cupcakes. It was a really fun night for all of us!

Santa

Ugly Sweater Party

 As most of you know I LOVE to throw parties. It has been a dream of mine to go into business and I am taking baby steps to get there. Mostly I am waiting on the kids to get older and all get in school, but I am ready!

This weekend I had my first job!!! It was such a fun party, it's always nice getting to do fun parties! It was an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. I didn't take many pictures because that wasn't my focus, it was making sure everything was cooked and ready and everyone was happy.

Here are the pictures I did take:

 

 

I didn't take a picture of any of the decorations, but they were cute!

Taylynn turned six!

Every other birthday is a big party. You may have noticed, but I kinda go all out for parties so I don't do them for every birthday. This year was Taylynn's off year, but we still made sure she had the time of her life.
The Sunday before her birthday we took her to Kansas City to get her ears pierced.....or ears peered as she would say! I had built it up to it hurting a bit and after the first ear she was so shocked it didn't hurt as bad as she thought. Her face was priceless!!!!

 We shopped for a while and just had fun! We also saw Santa, but didn't get our picture taken yet.

 After the mall we went to the plaza for dinner and lights; this is a yearly tradition for us. We ate at California Pizza and of course had Starbucks as it was getting dark.

 On her birthday we woke up to a birthday surprise of streamers that our elf Sam left for us. I made a quick breakfast to surprise the birthday girl before she woke up. Cherry turnovers, strawberry yogurt and donuts.

For school I made lollipop cookies and hot chocolate for the kids, it was a hit!

Taylynn wanted Mexican for dinner so I made fajitas and Oma and Aunt Katie came over

Preston bought and gave Taylynn a Preston and they both were excited. It was a bottle of nail polish and it's cupped inside Taylynn's hands. I think she really appreciated it!