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A View From My Front Window

Aunt Barbara’s Mexican Wedding Cakes. See recipe here.

These are light but taste similar to shortbread

Dipped Pretzel Sticks

These are easy for even the smallest child.

Super easy and super good, creamy fudge. See recipe here.

Anne

Anne

Peanut Butter Cookies With Kisses. See recipe here.

Peanut Butter Cookies With Kisses

We also made:

• Molasses Cookies (See recipe here)
• Peppermint Bark (See recipe here)
• Martha Washington’s Bon Bon’s (See recipe here)

All the cookies laid out for the neighbors

After the plates were wrapped, we drove around town caroling and handing out these lovelies to our dear friends and neighbors. We had a couple neighbors gone, so those will probably be distributed tonight.

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Baking Day!

Click on the link below and enjoy! Don’t forget to view the video of the moose!

http://www.allanne.com/hunting-2008-part-one

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Hunting, Come Take a Look

She was pointing at her cake! She liked the candle!

Goofy one of her pointing!

Yesyesyes…

She thought it was so fun!

She’s laughing, not blowing!

She’s seen birthdays for other people, so she thought it was cool to have one of her own!

Thank you, Anne, for letting me plagarize. Be sure to visit Anne and thank her, too.

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Miss Elle Turns 1

• Visit Emily
• Visit Katie’s blog to see her photos, too
• Check out Elizabeth’s view here
• Joe is more creative with his photos
• Anne has a few here, as well

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Weeky Round Up In Photos

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Weeky Round Up In Photos

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Weekly Round Up In Photos

An evening storm

Jayden

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A Few Photos From This Past Week

Call this a daft question, but you announced last March that you were expecting again, and I just realized (duh!) that you can’t still be pregnant!! Did I miss something????”  Hanging my head low, I have to admit that I am a terrible blogger!

Let me back up a few months and fill in some spaces ~grin~

Miss Elle Jane McLean was born via c-section September 4th, 2007. It took us several days to decide on a name. That’s Elle with a long e on the end.  She is my biggest girl baby at 6 pounds, 11 ounces!  Interestingly, only one other baby of mine has been overdue, and that was merely one day. She was almost two weeks overdue! Otherwise, they have all came early. Maybe that is why her weight was more than the other girls.

Without further ado, here she is:

This gives a an even dozen… well, not so even. The girls outweigh the boys 7 to 5.

Here are all the kids, with the oldest holding the youngest

If you click here, you can see an early video of Elle smiling.Here are a few more shots through the year. There are probably more photos than you had bargained for below.

Thanks for asking… and thanks for looking! What mama doesn’t like to show off her kids?

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Time For An Update

Well, the Superbowl is today. I have no clue what number year this superbowl is. We haven’t watched it in over 17 years! But I do know this: Steelers are playing the Seahawks. Being the Northwestern gal I am, and since I was born just outside Seattle…and because my Dad is a huge Seahawks fan, I guess I’ll officially, silently, root for the Seahawks.

I did find out, however, a few years ago, that today is a great day to do any shopping at Costco! Anne and I went there to find a very vacant warehouse! Oh! We did bump into our neighbors.  They told us they make an annual event of shopping on Superbowl Sunday because no one is around.  So there’s my tip to you today!

Dennis has been heavy into recording for our new CD. This one will be much more professional than the last, which was really intended just for fun and family.  I am excited to see parts of it coming together.

The purpose of this CD is to encourage the Saints and to plant seeds in non-believers. You can come visit our band’s site at www.electricchurch.net.  Please join the mailing list and enjoy reading!

Dennis has a 3 day weekend! Yippee!!!  What a treat for us! He really needed a break. He works between 14-16 hour days 6 days a week, usually.

The mice have been keeping us on our toes here, lately. It seems that they have all moved from the shed into the house. Understandably, right? I mean… the house IS warmer and there are crumbs…yes, crumbs. I know, it messes up your pristine image of me.

Anyway, the mice never keep us short of excitement here. I think their life’s goal is to taunt me.

School is moving right along! I enjoy sitting and working with the girls. The boys are mostly doing independent work.

I haven’t been feeling real well lately. I think it has something to do with the fact that we are expecting [again] in September!

We had a worm (a virus) infect a couple of our computers recently. It wiped out a lot of personal items, for which I am sad about. Just another reminder to have things backed up on CD!

Yesterday, Bethy and I sat and went through a large box of photos. It was so enjoyable to do this and everyone in the house came by us more than once to view all the photos of memories past. We managed to get them all organized into 2 small shoebox sized boxes.

I guess that’s enough for now. I need to get started on my day.  Until next time!

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Catching up