Holiday Happenings

So much to blog about so brace yourself with the pics. Below is my new favorite cookie recipe for Christmas. They are called Santa's Thumbprint Cookies. The are Thumbprint cookies with white chocolate, English Toffee, and Maraschino Cherries on top. They are gold because they took forever to make and the taste was so delectable.


I got Porter and Kyle My Pillow Pets. They are stuffed animals they can fold up or lay out flat like a pillow. The material on them is so soft. I love them! Go to mypillowpets.com. They have the cutest ones ever. I got Kyle the moose and Porter the monkey. They are so fun.
I love Christmas. I love the time spent with family. The Christmas music and just all of it. I can't wait to teach Porter the true meaning of Christmas and for him to know of the Savior and how significant the birth of Christ is (even though he was really born and resurrected on Easter :) ). Its such a great holiday. I love everything about it.

Ok, in the pic above I know it looks gross. But the tradition of Fininhatti (spelling... aka smoked cod fish) has been in my family for over 100 years. Yes 100 YEARS!!! My great-grandma brought the tradion with her when she moved her from England with her parents in 1911. Included in their tradition was sausage rolls, grapefruit and cinnamon buns. Oh and homemade hot cocoa. I love it. We do it every Christmas breakfast and has not failed in my 26 years of life or my mothers or grandmothers or great-grandmothers or her mothers. We'll keep this Old English tradition going for years to come. All of it is so delicious.
The grapefruit....
The sausage rolls. These were a nightmare to make... until this year! Ever since my great-grandmother passed away 5 1/2 years ago we have not been able to master her recipe for the crust. It was always a pinch of this a dash of that... oh and never work the dough too much.... well this year we finally got it right! My great grandma would be so proud!
Here is my little angel sleeping in the car on the way home from making the rounds at my mom's and my dad's houses. Good thing we did Kyle's parents house the night before. It would have been overwhelming. Poor wittle tired monkey. He is so adorable!!!!


And of course once we get home Kyle passes out with his and Porter's pillow pets (After we took down the tree). Porter's favorite thing was to rip ornaments off the tree so after three broken ornaments I decided that this tree had to come down immediately after Christmas.



Me, before the tree came down. I had to hold this so called prego bump just so you didn't think I over ate. :) Its small but its there. I am now 17 weeks and have gained 3 lbs. Not too shabby. By this time with Porter I was up 12 lbs!!! I am not going to gain that much this time. Plus I started out 15 lbs lighter this pregnancy. I am now in size 5's as I refuse to rubberband my size 3 jeans. It just looks so retarded. And is not very comfortable.


Our little man with one of his toys. A moving, tail-wagging, naying rocking horse. Lol. Its pretty funny.

And here is the quilt I made that I blogged about starting months ago. I finished it in November. It has peppermint buttons that go on the trees but I was afraid Porter would pull them off so I won't put them on until next year! My mom got me a sewing machine of my own for Christmas. Once I find out the gender of this baby I will be starting the next quilt. Oh my I am so domesticated. LOL. If you had known me 10 years ago even 6 years ago, you would laugh at the thought of me quilting or baking or doing anything of this sort. BUT I LOVE IT!!! I do it with style though. Nothing frumpy or homely lol :)

And finally the bedding saga. Months ago, I bought bedding from Pottery Barn... well they took three months to ship it all to me and by the time it all came I absolutely hated it!!! Oh it was awful. The material was more of an upholstery material. Really hard and rough. And really just not me. So I took it back and went to the Quilt Shop. I was kinda hesitant because that store can be really frumpy and homely but my sister (the designer) said she has found really cute stuff there and so has my neighbor. So I took my neighbor there with me and we picked out cute bedding but when I brought it home I realized it was hideous in my room and I would have to change my furniture, wall color, art work, mirror, lamps... and basically everything in my room... which is fine... but being pregnant I was not up for it and not only that... I realized when I got home how hideous the bedding really was. Oh my, what being pregnant can do to you. So I was up all night trying to figure out what to do and what colors would look best. So anyways. The pic above is what I got when I went in on the third try and just relaxed instead of rushing to find the perfect bedding. Oh how I just love it.
So anyways... was a perfect holiday season it has been. Spending time with my family. I love my hub so much and my son. I am so grateful for them. They are the loves of my life. Merry Christmas to all and to all GOODNIGHT!!!

Happy Holidays

Just wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

12 month checkup

Wow does time fly or what. Due to the holiday season, Porter just had his 12 month check up this past week. So here is the update of our little man. He is in the 90th percentile for height, 50th for weight and 75th for his head circumference. So he is all around average except his height. He is our little running back. The doctor even said his molars are coming in! Holy cow. That doesn't happen usually til they are about a year and a half. Oh and he didn't even flinch when he got his immunizations. I really think he has like no sense of pain. He bites himself, leaves indents and laughs about it for heavens sake. And to not even flinch with shots? Crazy. So anyway, its so hard to believe he is already 1! Its so crazy. He has been walking since 10 months so thats nothing new. Its so cute when he walks... his chubby cheeks jiggle like a bowl full of jelly. I love it! His favorite thing is to throw stuff. He'll grab my cell phone walk over to the kitchen tile and throw my phone. Or he'll pick up his legos or toy cars and chuck them at the tv, the wall and sometimes my head. Whatever is an easy target for him. He gives me loves though when he realizes he has hurt me. Oh and now he has started to relate words to objects. Like his milky or his snuggy (his blankey). Its so fun to watch them grow and develop. He is a daring little dude. He has learned to slide off our bed (which is abnormally high) and now he tries to go off the back of the couch! He has no fear. When he jumps or falls a distance he'll cry for like a half a second if that from the rush in his tummy I am sure. Then he starts laughing and tries to go at it again! What am I going to do with him? So anyway that is the latest. We find out what we are having the first week of the new year. So we'll be expecting a Samuel Jamison (Sam or Sammy) or a Sophie Mae. I did some genealogy research to make sure I could find those names somewhere to back me up with Kyle. They are family names so we have to use them. Even if they are from great uncle's second cousin twice removed lol.