Christmas Memories

Sadly had to give up on my Countdown to Christmas album. I think the next time I try it I will do my favorite parts of Christmas or something like that. Trying to scrap about each days events was a little tough. So here is a page to wrap up the Christmas season.

Mr. Cool is so cool!

Now that the holiday is over, I would really like to try and catch up on my scrapbooking. I guess I spent way too much time working on finishing Christmas gifts. (I hope Everyone liked them)
I love Emberly's snowman! He is so adorable, and to think he was done in an evening snow. So here is "Mr. Cool" Emberly's so AWESOME snowman! Thats all for tonight. Maybe I will have more tommorrow...you never know.

Countdown To Christmas : Day 9

Countdown to Christmas : Day 9 Local Traditions

AJ's Christmas Dance

I know I am just as surprised at the rest of you that I haven't yet posted about my baby's first Christmas dance. Well that's because Gina told me I had to wait till she fixed the pictures. Well she fixed the important one and I know she is a busy busy girl so here I am anyway.

Here are the flowers AJ bought for her.

Here he is anxiously awaiting her arrival.She is here and now it is time to put her flowers on her. He was oh so gentle and nice. NOT! Posing in front of the tree.

Oh look there is another girl all jealous and wanting to hang out with the most handsome guy in the whole town!Here they are being all shy! (This is one of the ones Gina retouched) Aren't they sweet!This one was taken from a friend cell phone at the dance.

And Well this is my handsome young man and yes he smells as good as he looks!

Countdown To Christmas : Day 8

Tonight the boys and I popped some popcorn, poured some Sugar Cookie Eggnog and plopped in front of the TV for the new Disney special "Prep and Landing" It was really cute, but the boys and I agree, it was too short they should have made an entire movie out of it. So here is today's page

Countdown to Christmas : Day 8 Prep and Landing

Countdown To Christmas : Day 7

Yesterday kind of on the spur of the moment I decided to do a gingerbread village with the kiddos. Since Alan and Mike went to the Penguin Game last night (Thanks Gina!) Kimmy came over to hang out after work. Gina had a half day of work so her and Emmie showed up too! Then next thing you know mom came over. It was nice having everyone over, If I had known I could have had Becca and Vinny over. But anyway, every year we try and do some kind of Gingerbread Creation. it was so much fun and interesting seeing how each others turned out.

Countdown to Christmas : Day 7 Gingerbread Houses

Walking in a "Gingerbread" Wonderland

This is our fabulous Gingerbread Village! Nathan's House

Nathan's House

Mamal's House

Gina's House

Kris's House

Berker's House

Emberly's House

Emberly's House

AJ's House

Countdown To Christmas : Day 6

Today was kind of a lazy day in the Baker house. I slept till like 11:30 this morning, WOW! I dont know why but it felt good. We wanted to get started on Christmas cookies, but with having to take Jess home early this evening we just ran out of time. I did manage to get one batch of peanut butter blossoms out of Alan though. They are never going to make it till Christmas, heck we will be lucky if they make it till tommorrow.

AJ had a wonderful time at the dance and decided to ask Lyinze to be his girlfriend! Great just what I need. LOL! Im glad he had such a goot time though!

So here is todays countdown page!

Countdown to Christmas: Day 6 Baking Day (take one)

Countdown To Christmas : Days 4 and 5

I haven't forgotten my Countdown days, I am just running a little behind. I was having some problems getting these last two pages to be just what I wanted. I think I am happy with the way they turned out.
Tonight was AJ's very first Dance. He asked his friend Lyinze to be his "date" and she accepted. They both looked so nice and had a wonderful time.

Countdown to Christmas Day 4 : Ornament Tradition

Countdown to Christmas Day 5 : Christmas Dance

Countdown To Christmas : Day 3

Today was nothing too fantastic. Went to work, came home, ate spaghetti, watched the hockey game (We Won!) and not too much else. The boys went out to their dad's so Nate could go hunting in the morning. I hope he gets his deer! I had to send AJ too, I just cant trust him to stay on task alone.

So today's countdown page is more of my decorations. Things that make my home feel like Christmas. I love my little snowman buddies. I actually can remember painting them. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember mine is the boy one. (Figures Kim got the girl!) We didn't think it was right to break up the set so we agreed I could have them. So here is today's page

Countdown to Christmas : Day 3 More Decorations

Countdown To Christmas : Day 2

Today I spent most of the evening Christmas shopping with Kim. We had fun and I found a few things but I still have a long way to go. Being that I obviously cant take a picture of my treasures from this evening I thought I would share some of my favorite Christmas decorations. I still have a ways to go with the whole decorating thing but here are a few I do have up. so here we have

Countdown to Christmas: Day 2 Favorite Decorations

Countdown To Christmas : Day 1

Today is December 1st, which means Christmas is almost here. I love Christmas time, I really want to be able to enjoy the season with the kids this year! Before I know it they will be all grown up and gone and I will have missed doing things with them that I wanted to. One of the things I am going to try and do is a countdown to Christmas album. I got page 1 done today, its about our Christmas tree. So check it out


Christmas Countdown 2009 : December 1

Hopefully I can stick to it and have a really cool album when I am done. I think that would be really neat.

Nate has been out for two days now and still no deer. I know he can be a little loud out there, but I really do hope someday soon he will get his first one. AJ was not able to get out this year. The Dr. thought maybe it would be better to wait a little while since he is still recovering from the H1N1 (swine flu)