Last Meal of 2009

For New Year's Dinner we had Sweet and Sour Chicken, rice, and egg drop soup. It was all really tasty, especially the sweet and sour chicken.

Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe came from here...
http://creatingpostitnotes.blogspot.com/2008/03/wok-this-way.html

Egg drop soup from here...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Restaurant-Style-Egg-Drop-Soup/Detail.aspx


Ready to eat...I meant to put some candles on the table, but dinner was finishing up too quickly!!!


Cheers to 2009! (we're drinking water, folks!)



2009 has been crazy busy, and lots of fun. Here's looking forward to another great year!

Sledding...for the first time!

Since I'm wonder mom and all, I decided to take the kids sledding for the FIRST time... aren't I great! Actually, I just didn't know where to go except to Old Powderhorn, and that's a 40 minute drive. My friend, Sue (aka Captain) and my friend Ruth gave me the inside scoop on going to Scenic Elementary and sledding. Finally managed it! If I'd known how much fun they'd have (and how much work they have to do) I would have been there every day this break!!!
























BayLea had a friend show up from daycare (not planned, they just were there).






I wanted to get a picture of my kids together, but decided I wanted them closer together. Look how cute Breccan looks here...

and then he made faces at me for the one of them closer!

He's still cute though!


Daddy showed up after work...he was a little cold.




They both wanted to try sledding like they were snowboarding...may be time for ski lessons.





and P.S. Can I just tell you how much I love my camera??? Because although I blew out some of the snow, at least my snow isn't GRAY!!!

Another annual Bucket Christmas Party

Love these girls. My good buddies from RME. Never in my life have I laughed as hard as I do when I'm with them. They are so fun.

This is my oldest Bucket friend....okay, not oldest, oldest...just the one I've known the longest. She and I started work at Clifton Elementary in 1994 and then moved to RME when it was built. Pam was opening our bottle of French champagne (a gift from Yeasta Hunny...loooong story, don't ask).




It began to bubble over so she stuck her finger in it! Thank God, she's Niles...clean and neat!


Kim, a.k.a. Jugs, I met at RME and she makes for tons of laughter and fun! She likes to pose like this when I try to take her picture, because she's a nut that way!


These aren't the best pictures technically...I forgot the flash, darn it!


Me, Jugs and Yeasta...Yeasta is the music teacher at RME. She's amazing.


I think this is a beautiful picture of Ruby, aka Yeasta.


Me, Pam (Niles) and Jugs.


Captain (aka Sue) finally got there... and now we could eat!!! Captain and I were pregnant at the same time...Her wee one, Ben, is 6 months older than BayLea.

We had overnight sausage casserole and cranberry and white chocolate scones from me, breakfast strata from Captain, homemade raviolis from Jugs, coffee cake and fudge from Niles, and champagne from France from Yeasta. Tasty yummy.


A group photos...I'm waiting for a picture of the group from Jugs to see if it's better than this one.

We missed our Baby Bucket...I sure hope the Nuggets won, Baby! Hopefully you can come next year...you've missed two years now, girlfriend!

Water Pictures from Glenwood Springs Pool

These are the pictures from the water camera. I'm so glad we drove to the other side of town to get this camera before we went to the pool. I love these pictures!












Don't I look lovely? I had no idea I was making this face. I was just thrilled I could go underwater like this. Did you know that you can go underwater in goggles and not get your eyes wet??? The only time I've gone underwater purposely since I was a kid was snorkeling. Wearing goggles at the pool might actually mean I can have fun in the pool with my kids!!!

Snow Painting

I joined a group on Facebook that sent me an activity to do for 5 days of the winter break. So far we've managed to do one...and that is the snow painting. Actually Daddy went out with them to do it. They enjoyed it, I think. We put water and food color in water bottles and let them spray the snow.

Our Christmas Presents from our Babes

These are the gifts we received from BayLea and Breccan that they made at school. Breccan decorated a candle holder. He was so enthralled with the gift when he brought it home that he snuck upstairs with it and unwrapped it. Then he tried to re-wrap it with typing paper. It didn't work too well. So I saw that one long before Christmas.


He decorated the jar and picked out the top.

From BayLea I got a bookmark with her cute little picture on it and the class made a recipe book. It was really cute. Mrs. Bergen asked the kids to tell them how to make something and she wrote down just what the kids said. Some were hilarious. BayLea's was cute...but you could tell she's helped me cook some...she knew quite a bit about the process of making cake.