Christmas Day

Ready to run up and start the present fun.    

 

 

Archery!  (Kira got a bow and arrow.  She was inspired at Steph's wedding!)

Judi's new present (and all photos below here in the post were taken with the new camera.)

Kitty Coale in the midst of Christmas chaos.

Natalie

Kira gets a new giraffe ornament

Nat gets her iPad Mini

Kira gets the iPhone 4 turned into a touch

Tia gets hers!  (have you ever seen someone so excited?)

Go Tia!

A little millennial with her iPad Mini.

Christmas Eve Cooking

Stay tuned for a detailed post about our Christmas Eve.  (It will be cross-posted to both the vegan cooking blog.)  In the meantime, enjoy a picture of Judi and her friend Patti cooking up a vegan storm!

Bark

This was our adventure last night.

Kira, Natalie, and I made this last night. I like Peppermint bark, but I can do without the white chocolate, and I wanted to make sure we had a vegan version so we crushed candy canes and melted dark chocolate chips.

We learned that despite the fact that candy canes break easily when you don't want them to break, they are HARD to crush into little bits. Next time, we're going to stick them in my very powerful VitaMix blender.

I didn't measure. We crushed about 12 or so candy canes and melted ~8-10 ounces of chocolate chips. We mixed the two ingredients together, spread thin on waxed paper and refrigerated. When it was cool, we broke it up into smaller pieces. YUM!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

 

The other day, we got 5 packages!  The girls are excited.

My car

I'm not usually so festive.  I just love the car antlers.  They are so silly and they make me smile.  Also, the girls like riding to school in a reindeer and then being spit out. 

baking and decorating (12/2-5)

I bake (healthy) cookies while we decorate the tree... 

The kitties plot to overthrow the tree.

Advent Calendars

Thanks KJ, Sam, Lily, Wyatt, and Rory!

Collaboration

The girls are working together to create this Christmas mural.  Click to see it all. 

Turkey fun

 

Happy Thanksgiving... we made him and then we dipped him in chocolate and ate him.