Cookie Exchange Party

We had a fun day Dec 15th with Cyndy bringing snow from Flagstaff for the our family and the Everett's family to play with and we finished with a cookie exchange party. The kids and dads had fun throwing snowballs and making a snowowl. I'm not sure where the owl idea came from but it was cute. The snow ended up staying on our lawn for the next 2 days until it melted away. :(

Below are some pictures from our Cookie Exchange party that we had at 2pm. This was the first annual, and I'm definitely doing it again. We had Oatmeal lace cookies dipped in chocolate, "adult" chocolate cookies - one recipe with cocoa nibs and salt and the other with cayenne pepper, we also had peanut butter blossoms, sour cream cookies, sugar cookies, monster cookies, blue ribbon winning molasses cookies, thumbprint jam cookies and pretty green marshmallow wreaths. So good...so good...really, everyone did a great job with the flour butter and sugar. I can't wait to do it again next eyar. Along with all the cookies we had some sparkling cranberry juice and snacked on crackers with green chiles and cream cheese with pickapeppa sauce. The winners of the cookie tin awards were:

Best tasting: Three-way tie between the oatmeal lace, peanut butter blossoms and the sour cream cookies.
Best looking: Marshmallow holiday wreaths with red hots
Most unique: The "adult" chocolate duo

Congrats winners!

Mmmmm, baby puree

Here's what I've been working on lately...looks good, right?

We're working on the solid foods now...

He's a very good eater we've discovered. Here he is trying out some rice cereal. We opted not to bib him since we weren't sure how dirty he'd get. We've found that he's very clean, it's just mommy who is messy and doesn't always hit the mouth in the best spot. He's tried bananas, apples, pears, sweet potatoes, peas and we'll try squash next week. So far he likes it all. Yay!!

He's rolling the other way now

He's just rolling all over the place. Just when he's figured out rolling from front to back, he just up and goes the other way. I bet he'll be crawling and running here any day. It's amazing how one day they didn't do something and then all of the sudden it's in their lives and they want to do it all the time. He's reaching out for everything and learning about cause and effect. For example, if baby throws something on the floor, mommy will pick it up for him :). He's just so cute and making lots of new noises and is all around having fun.

We're getting ready for Christmas and have put up a wreath and will probably be picking up our tree on Sunday. Has anyone else put up their holiday decor?