Christmas tree!

I'm very excited to have this up in my house this year! This is the tree that hung (yes, hung) in our house in Round Rock every year for Christmas. Mom and dad made it in the fall of 1977...if you can't tell by the pictures that it's been around for a few Christmases! Since mom and dad moved to College Station it hasn't been used. Mom upgraded and bought a big fancy tree (and by big I mean TALL) last year for their new house. Over Thanksgiving dad asked who was going to use this tree and I said I had the perfect place for it! Jacob likes to have a real tree in their house for Christmas. My house is fairly small so I knew it would work out great since this little tree doesn't take up much space. All you just need a hook in the ceiling...and hopefully one that doesn't fall out of the ceiling (the hook that was previously in my ceiling definitely fell out but as always Sammy was all over it and put up a new hook)!

Cousin love

Wyatt started slipping and grabbed on to the closest thing he could. Unfortunately for Riley it was her hair. She's actually crying rather loudly in this picture which is understandable because Wyatt has quite a grip. Wy had no clue what was going on.





Hayden the photographer capturing some great shots of Max the dog

Riley & her bf

Here are a few pictures of Riley at Hayden's 2nd to last football game. She cheered for Hayden, cheered for the Eagles, shook her shaker, and flirted with Samuel, her boyfriend!

Dipped pretzel rods

Yummy! These are pretzel rods dipped in melted caramel, dipped in chocolate, and then drizzled with some more chocolate! Sounds simple, right? Not so fast. Emily and I saw these on another blog and Emily made them. She was in charge of taking desserts to her in-law's Thanksgiving get-together. She made "Death by Chocolate" as well as these delicious treats. It was far from simple. Turns out caramel does not melt or dip too easily and gets hard quickly, making it more difficult to try to dip in to. They take forever to harden which has to occur before dipping into the chocolate. Non-stick foil is the way to go, not wax paper. Emily and mom and dad stayed up way late Friday night making these. Somehow I had fallen asleep on the couch before the chocolate-dipping and unsticking-to-the-wax-paper madness began. However, all said and done, Emily said they were quite tasty!

It's time.

As many of you know, I've been a blog follower for a couple of years now. It started in a non-creepy stalker-ish way. I'm now obsessed. I have my list of blogs that I check daily. And I mean daily. Some of the blogs are of people that I know and there are also the blogs of the people I don't know...which I guess is kind of the creepy part. Either way, I'm a fan of the blogs. I've thought about starting my own for a while now and so I'm finally doing it. Since I have no human children to my name (only one furchild) but spend a lot, and I mean a lot, of time with other people's children, I thought the name was fitting. Plus Emily and I used to LOVE the movie Adventures in Babysitting! "Take back what you said about Thor!"