What a Glorious Day!

Work, work, work on Christmas presents. I've never quilted before so I'm teaching myself to use these squares. Not so bad, but I wish I wouldn't have been so poor years ago and would have gotten a larger cutting mat.

It takes so long to get light when it is cloudy and snowing. So blue.


The dogs all lined up in their kennel napping. Well, they were until I woke them up.

Drove to town to pick up Nick. Everything is so frosty.

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On the second trip to town to pick up Elijah we saw a moose on the way back. It ran when my tires hit the rumble strip.

Dinner tonight was oven roasted vegetables (onions, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and peppers).

Porcupine meatballs with fresh jalapeno in a stewed tomato and beer sauce.

We tried to have the little ones play memory, but this family is entirely too competitive even at the youngest ages. Look at her face....pouting because he made a match. Then happy because she made a match.

Then he threw a major fit when he lost and I laughed so hard.
Eventually he laughed, too, but then went right back into fit mode which required some help from Nick.

Absolutely no help out of this guy. His only reaction was to yell at us if we got in the way of the television.

This girl just sat and watched it all.

Trying for a little romantic atmosphere. Well, about as romantic as you can get with five kids running around. Sauteed some onions , bacon and rosemary to put in the mashed potatoes.

The finished product with some piping hot corn bread. Dinner was awesome!

This is what happens when you make dinners such as this.

These guys are playing with Olivia's new moon sand waiting for dad to get up so we can watch Transformers. What a glorious day!