More Christmas Fun!

This week we made yummy gingerbread cookies and decorated them. They were gone in 2 days. The kids loved them!

Then one day we were listening to the song "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and we were laughing at the line that sings "Oh bring us some figgy pudding.." So I thought it would be fun to learn about what figgy pudding was and make it. Well, I must say it is a very old recipe tradition dating back to 16th century England. Either they didn't have sugar back then or the English have no taste buds, because it was not that great. It looked and smelled pretty but the recipe calls for no sugar just molasses. I couldn't find figs anywhere so I used dates. Well, I had to doctor it up a bit (the
American way) with caramel sauce and ice cream. Then it was much better. So, I thought it would be fun to try out British food. We went to a place in Layton called Little Taste of Britain. Everything was deep fried - twinkies, pineapple, sausage and greasy chips and fries. There were no salads or vegetables of any kind. Sorry, I really wanted to like British food, but this restaurant ruined it. There was a cute little gift shop off to the side with British souvineers and English foods, but the overpowering amonia mopped floors and the the wiered 60's Beetle's movie that was playing was enough for us to decide that this was a one time thing for us.

We met up with my sister Crista on Saturday and went to Christmas Village.
We took the train there and the kids loved it. The line to see Santa was too long so we took pictures of and admired the dancing horse with flashing Christmas lights instead. The kids loved it.

Gabe and Paisley have been loving their advent calendars that Oma sent them. This week they got tatoos and Paisley got a cute ring and bracelet. I love this time of year!!

Weekend with Grandma

What a fun weekend! Friday night we went bowling. Gabe totally kicked my butt on his first time and of course Manuel won. Then Saturday Grandma came over and I made my homemade green enchiladas. We had limeade and fresh guacamole. After dinner Grandma read the kids Christmas stories and I made eggnog in edible peppermint shot glasses. So yummy!! Grandma contributed warm oatmeal raisin cookies. She also brought a funny move from the 60's. It was called "Man's Favorite Sport" and it was actually pretty funny-Manuel laughed a lot. Today Grandma went to church with us and took Paisley to nursery for the first time. She did so good! For dinner we had yummy homemade holiday appetizers. And tonight we are going to make pumpkin buttermilk pancakes with toasted pecans. Yum! Grandma is going to stay until the snow lets up.

We were busy this week making batches of my Miracle Foot Ointment. I have made about 200 containers of ointment so far and am looking for people to test out the products before we release them at the end of the month. Let me know if you want to test it for free! I am looking for about 25 testimonials.

We are excited for the holiday season. We finished all our shopping and just need to wrap now. Yeah!!!