Holiday Baking

Erin helped me make the rolo turtle pretzels by helping to unwrap the candies and placing the candies on the pretzels.

How to Watch Football

The best way to watch football, with a pizza picnic in front of the TV!

Note:We realized that we watch a lot of football when Sammie referred to intermission during a show as half time!

Christmas Take One

We exchanged gifts with grandma great before she left for LA. Sammie still says that her embossing set if one of her best gifts and Erin loves to play and sing with her baby. Thanks grandma great!

Jingle Bells in Greek

Sammie's Christmas Program

Sammie's school Christmas program was last Tuesday and it was fabulous! I loved how they had students playing the piano accompaniments while the choirs sang! Of course, Sammie's choir was the best! Erin was having fun watching Sammie and was waving to her while she was on stage. While we were waiting for Sammie to preform, Erin had fun playing in yiayia's purse and found some sticky notes for everyone to wear on their foreheads. Thanks to all of the grandparents and great-grandparents for coming to support Sammie! I love that we took up a whole row!

Here We Go Brownies!

We just beat the Steelers, the defending Superbowl champs!!!! Go Browns!

Chritmas Preparations

This weekend we took the girls to see "A Christmas Carol" at the Canton Player's Guild. Erin was nervous about the lights going off, but seemed to mostly enjoy the show. Sammie always loves seeing live shows. At intermission, Sammie leaned over and asked if it was half time. Obviously, we watch a lot of football! The girls also helped me to decorate our Christmas tree. This year's tree features our new angle and star and does not include candy canes or garland. We were really nervous about the kitten's reaction and didn't want to tempt them with too much fun hanging from the tree. So far, so good though! All of the cats are interested in the tree, but there have been no climbings and they have managed to only knock 2 bulbs off (knock on wood)!

O Christmas Tree

We found our Christmas tree this year in a record setting 15 minutes! The weather was perfect and the girls enjoyed helping cut down the tree and hauling it back in the sled. What a wonderful family tradition we have started! We were even featured on the front page of the Times Reporter! Click here to see the article and picture.