Once Upon a Family

Grandma and Grandpa came over and we had make your own pizza.   Every year we put together a new puzzle.  Dancer's goal for ...

Dad slept all day after working a five night stretch.  The kids and I went to a Christmas Eve service in a barn and when we got home Da...

First we had to find our way to the cookie exchange.  There is a town in front of us in this picture.  It was a so foggy we couldn'...

Another tradtion, again because we did it last year, was the Helmets Required Christmas party.  They were barely in the door before the...

These I saw somewhere on Pinterest.  We have a cookie exchange so I was looking for something that was fast to make since we needed so many...

Loved the Snapple bottles we decorated for Halloween so I made a couple with a Christmas theme. Paint the tops red.  It is now too ...

  The tree with all the gifts.  Notice there are no ornaments on the bottom branches of the tree, that is because of the cats.  They di...

  Playing with gifts.   This was a dancing tree with a face in it and it sang some Christmas song in a crazy voice.  I remember ...

  Went to Grandpa Bob's and Grandma Shirley's last weekend to bring them plates and boxes of cookies along with a couple of gif...

  Gather round the tree to exchange white elephant gifts.   The kids had a blast with this game.  It is a gift wrapped with duct...

  This is a festive change to the much loved peanut butter cookie.   1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1 cup suga...

  Apple Walnut Cookies 2/3 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour 2 1/4 tsp. cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking po...