Merry Christmas

The ornament says, "We have seen His star".

Apparently Captain America is protecting it.

The boys each taking a turn reading the Christmas story from the book Luke.

Headlamp and safety glasses...

The headlamps seemed to be a huge hit.

Later in the evening we went to grandma & grandpa's house.

Let's Take a Christmas Picture...

Every year we take a picture of the boys to put on a Christmas ornament.

And every year it seems like we take dozens of pictures to get that "one".

Thank goodness for digital cameras!

Let's get the silly ones out of the way first.

As always, the boys are cooperative.

As is the camera... er the operator of the camera.

Not sure what happened to the flash.

"Is this a good smile mom?"

"I'm done."

I think this is the "one" we chose for the ornament.

Mmmm Cookies

Now that Connor is eating dairy, it has

opened up a whole new world of foods for him to try.

I have quite a mental list of recipes I want to make.

One of the first ones was peanut butter sunbutter cookies.

These two products are essential in our house.

The Sunbutter is an awesome peanut butter-like spread made from sunflower kernels.

It tastes very close to peanut butter.

The egg replacer is a powder you mix with water and

it will mimic the action of an egg.  It works well in most recipes.

I say most because I've had a few baking disasters.  We're talking catastrophes.

Let's just say our oldest and much loved lab eats a well!

Connor helped smash the cookies down... thus the extra sugar.

One of the "perks", if you will, of being allergic to eggs is being able to eat the cookie dough.

No raw eggs with Sam & Ella to worry about!

These cookies were so good!

Needless to say they didn't last very long.