Winter "colds"

So, the kids have been a little down and out of it with a cold this week. Heidi being the worst, but a trooper nonetheless. We have all been shut up in the house and really feeling it! Tomorrow K and I will set up shop at the Momma's Organic Market in town and see if we can't sell a few things.

Yesterday the kiddos and I went to take a picture with Santa. I really needed to get out Christmas cards and thought the best way to do that would be to have an organized picture. Graeme, of course, is into telling everyone that Santa's not real and seemed to care less when given the opportunity to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas. I hadn't really prepped him that he would be asked that question. So he stared blankly at me. Heidi just didn't want to get anywhere near him. They offered to let her sit in the little red chair in front. She thought that was ok.

The infamous picture (oooh, I hope it's ok that I post it here...)


Santa takes a great picture....I loaded it up on Snapfish and sent the cards off to be printed at Wal-greens....they called this morning and wouldn't print them because it was a "professional" picture. LOL. I had to edit it, crop it, fix the color...oh well. Here is it, I didn't *really* want to send out Santa pictures anyway. So we all head up stairs and we had our own photo session this morning...and this is what we ended up with. So, all of you that are getting cards....enjoy!


I loved this one of them and the baby making a silly face...


So, every Sunday we make pancakes. The kids LOVE this. They ask for them every day...but it's a special treat I save for the weekends, and they love to help. My pancake hint - add a mashed banana to every cup of flour (or mix if you are *that* kind...lol). It's a great way to make the pancakes taste sweet without extra sugar and use up that banana that is starting to brown up.
My silly chefs...