Have you seen my Bob?

It has been snowing like crazy here just in time for Christmas. Although both kids have come down with a cold (Ben's first time getting sick, sad) we sure are enjoying the fun atmosphere lots of snow gives to our house. The snow is absolutely PERFECT for packing, so we had to make some snow sculptures. First we made a huge snowman.

Afton named him Bob. He is an odd shaped fellow with sad eyes, but what can you do. Then Jared and Afton made a snow cave for a really small person.
The rest of the day Afton referred to the snowman as "my Bob." Then she started singing "Have you seen our Bob?" to the tune of a Madeline cartoon where they sing, "have you seen our dog?" Her singing repertoire has expanded to include any song she has ever heard plus several songs she has made up to either her own random tune or by borrowing a tune from another song.
Little Ben slept through all the snow fun, not even knowing what he was missing.
I was also really ambitious last week and decided to try my hand at making a variety of Christmas cookies for our neighbor gifts. We are lucky we don't know very many people here yet, so I only had to make one batch of each. My professional helper was with me all the way. (here is the naked truth: this is what she looks like most of the time. hair messy and food on her face, p.j.'s still on at 10am. -sigh-)



We made candy cane cookies, chocolate caramel cookies, chocolate dipped pretzels, and even my family's famous fudge. It was fun because it has really helped me get into the Christmas spirit. And helped me gain those few more pounds I have always wanted to gain. Um, yeah. Right.