Rolling out the Dough

Gingerbread houses are so fun to make. We love making ours from scratch. It makes the apartment smell so delicious. For the windows we broke up jolly ranchers and put them in the cutouts and while they were baking it melted into beautiful stained glass:)- Assembly tomorrow night.

Preparing for Christmas

Counting down to Christmas! Here's some of my 'to do' list, not in any order
Put up the tree *
Decorate the tree*
Take a sweet Christmas Photo*
Add Nativity pieces night by night*
Make Christmas cards*
Write up a newsletter*
Read the story of Baby Jesus*
Bake Ginger bread pieces*
Assemble Ginger Bread House*
Take Lola's picture with Santa*
Shop & wrap *
Find gifts for donating at church gift drive*

Ok the Trees done

After we assembled the tree, Lola put the decorations on the branches. She of course was not able to reach the higher part of the tree, and she of course wanted to do it all by herself. So after about 20 minutes she let me know that the tree was all done. :) Mommy left it like this for a couple of days before spreading them around the rest of the tree.

Being Silly

Lola loves going to visit our neighbors who have two children. She likes to pretend to be a baby too. We caught a quick photo when they were all being a baby. Silly kids:)

Hello Aunt Betty

After dropping off Eric at the airport so he could spend some of Thanksgiving in Denver, we drove south to visit Aunt Betty. How nice it is to be on the beach. Lola played and played in the sand with a shovel someone forgot. We also went into the little aquarium at the end of the Manhattan beach pier.

Happy Thanksgiving

What a treat to have share Thanksgiving with Friends and Family. Eric & Virgil had fun working in the kitchen. We made a menu for our Austrian neighbors who joined us. Lola liked having her date with their son. She fed him some bread. Oh how tasty Thanksgiving dinner is... YUM.

Spending some time in the kitchen

Homemade rolls from freshly ground wheat.. (take a deep breath of yeast bread.. oh nice:)Freshly made Foccasia bread, makes mouth water. Spinach artichoke dip with peperjack cheese on top- soo tasty, cranberry sauce- terrific on graham crackers and savory with turkey, pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling- yes please! Burbon pecan pie,,,oh so tasty!Of course the always satisfying sausage cheese balls- must for Prewitt family gatherings. And tomorrow, the turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green bean caserole.