Christmas Baking!

This is Adri posting for Audrey, because we all now know that she hates Monday's and we would like to see something new from her.
At Christmas time we (Audrey and I) love to bake, everyone else loves to eat what we bake. Today Heather talked Audrey into baking chocolate chip cookies with her, guess who ended up doing all the baking. I do have to say that Audrey makes the best chocolate chip cookies. They always turn out so plump and gooey. Last Sunday Audrey and I baked my Nanny's famous "Baby Jesus Cookies". I know this is a short post but it goes to show everyone that we LOVE sundays.

I HATE Mondays!

Mondays are the worst day of the week for me.  I hate the thought of getting up and starting a whole new week of work.  To make this last Monday even more unpleasant when I walked out to my car to head for work I was greeted with this!

The nerve of some people!  Luckily I am very good at taking out my valuables  every night.  At first glance I thought they hadn't taken anything but with closer examination I realized that my makeup bag was gone!  Who steals a makeup bag?  Really?!?! 

Not to fear over the years I have stocked up on samples and Clinique Bonus Buys and this seems to be getting me through, but I sure do miss my nice makeup!

Dance Dance Dance....

Thursday night was Mikayla's dance recital and it was a long one!  This year they decided to have all the dancers onstage at the end of the performance so that meant no sneaking out early for us.  I think it was the longest thing I have had to sit through in my life, especially since Mikayla was onstage for only a few minutes.  Those few minutes were great through.  She did such an amazing job and I was so proud of her.  She told me right before her recital that she was nervous, scared and excited about getting up on stage.  You couldn't tell when she danced though, she was beautiful!

Thanks to everyone who came to support my little ballerina!  She was so excited to have all of you there.

Seeing the Babies!

After Mikayla was done with dance tonight she wanted to stop and see the horses out by her dad's house.  This one farm has so many horses and they have added quite a few babies this season.  Mikayla and I have tried to count them several times and I think we have gotten as high as 12.  They are so cute!  Mikayla tried to get the babies to come up to the fence so she could pet them but only the adult horses would do it.  Oh well she still had a good time.  

She use to take horseback riding lessons and loved it, but her trainer has not done them for the last couple of summers.  If anyone knows of someone or some place please let me know.

Young Love????

Adri and her family went to Hawaii. Zach and his family went to Disneyland. I had the wonderful job of watching the dogs!  How does that work!  Honestly though they were good and I had fun.  I took Phoebe over to see Yoshi every night.  Zach and Adri have talked about them having puppies so I did a little video taping because I think it might be love?  

Supporting My Favorite American Idol

I didn't have to work today so we decided to brave the crowds and go to show our support to Murray's (and mine as well) American Idol.  We got the girls out of school a little early and headed to the High School.  Mikayla was so excited when she found out what we were doing.  She loves American Idol just as much as I do.  My favorite is always her favorite.  Although she tends to get confused and if you ask her who my favorite is she will sometimes say Chris Daughtry.  She will say my mom wants to marry him so that her name will be 

Audrey Daughtry. 

 Hehehe...... I think it sounds pretty good!

This picture isn't so great but I promise David is in here.  He is in the grey sweater and his mom is next to him in the bright yellow shirt.  What a cutie!

Puppy Love

Everybody loves Phoebe!  Mikayla especially has just fallen in love with this puppy.  Look at how sweet she is with her.  I would love to get her a puppy but after our heartache with Baloo and me working all the time I'm not sure it's fair to a puppy.  They sure are lots of fun though.  Maybe someday.... for now little Phoebe will have to do.

Mikayla remembering to bring a blanket so Phoebe doesn't get cold on the way to her house.

This is the puppies favorite spot in the car.  I don't know how Adri does it, it doesn't look comfortable at all to me.  Plus when she gets to be big and fat then what will she do?