"Home" made Eggrolls

One Sunday afternoon Jerry and the girls decided to try their hands at making homemade Eggrolls. So, everyone rolled up their "pajama" sleeves and grabbed a wrap. The girls did a great job measuring and sealing the eggrolls. (They had never eaten one before.)

We didn't have pork so we substituted it with ground beef. It still tasted really good!

Jerry taught the girls to keep the wraps wet so they wouldn't tear.

Jerry was sooo ready to cook and eat the eggrolls after working hard to make them that he forgot to read through the WHOLE recipe before making the eggrolls...they needed to be refridgerated for 4+ hours prior to cooking!! UGH

To say the least, the eggrolls still tasted awesome--the next day. Jerry loves trying news things...and the girls love to help Daddy try new things. Here is the finished product! They were delicious.

Look what I learned...

I am the Achievement Girl leader for our ward. And sometimes Courtney gets to "tag-along" when Daddy's gone. So, last night the girls learned the proper way to iron and then tried their hand at sewing buttons, snaps and a straight stitch. As you can see, Courtney participated and is quite "hooked" with the whole sewing deal.

Courtney had such fun practicing her snaps today that she ran to get her OWN shirt to fix the button. Her "purple" thread from last night would work JUST fine! Yeah.

Well, if you need a button to be sewn on--you know who to come to:) COURTNEY CAN DO IT!

The first SNOW in our new house!

This year we realized that when we CAN'T see the picnic table in the backyard, anymore, we have a lot of snow! Now, every snow, we send Daddy out to measure so we can brag (devestate others) about our inches:)

Here are my snow angels: Kimberly, Natalie and Courtney.

Later that day we found Daddy building his OWN snowman ;) SSSHHH!! He doesn't know...that WE know!

California wedding

Well, to tell the full story...Jerry won a contest at work, so he and I got fly out to California for his brother Kevin's wedding. My mom graciously came to stay with our girls the week we were gone. To say the least, the PA rain followed us out to CA for MOST of the trip. It was nice to see family but it wasn't the same without our girls! And YES our faith was tried every day, to help Jerry and I work together and enjoy our time away. It was a beautiful Temple ceremony. Kevin and Megan were so happy. The day of their wedding the rain finally stopped! I'm grateful we could go. By the way, it was the most expensive wedding/trip we've ever attended (our luggage was lost the ENTIRE week and we both had to buy ALL new stuff). HaHaHa

"Choose The Right"

Natalie turned 8 years old the week after Thanksgiving. She had been preparing, over the last year, to be baptised in December. On December 26th, Natalie was baptised by her Dad with family and friends close-by. It was a memorable service! She and her Eastern cousins even sang together. Natalie continues to strive for righteousness daily. And enjoys reading her scriptures to strengthen her testimony. She is a "daughter of God".

Traditional tree decorating time.

The weekend after every Thanksgiving, we decorate and put up the Christmas tree together. Daddy and the girls are in charge of decorating the tree. And Mommy is to decorate the rest of the house.

Well, since we had recently moved-in we weren't quite sure where to put things this holiday. So, we moved the piano and coffee table for the tree to be in the right corner of the room.

How many girls...I mean lights does it take to decorate YOUR tree???

Only AFTER the tree was completely decorated did we realize that it would fit perfectly on the LEFT side of the fireplace.

And "THAT'S" how you get your Christmas tree from one side of the room to the other...you change the color of your decorations:)