Cookies, Pies & Bread. Oh my!

Wow, 2 weeks.  That's pretty lame.  Especially around Christmas when there is so much going on that I could be sharing.  Lots of stuff I want to share, just haven't had the time I guess.  I made some of the Christmas gifts this year, so I want to share those as well.  

Last Wednesday, my good friend Kelsey (also one of my bridesmaids) came over to do some Christmas baking.  Chris's work potluck was on Thursday and he volunteered {me} to bring 2 apple pies.  So that was on my list.  I wanted to bake some cookies to take to my parents house for Christmas & I was heading to a good friends house the next day so I wanted to take her and her family some zucchini bread.  We didn't get started till the afternoon because Chris had my car keys, so I couldn't make the last minute run to Wal Mart to get the last of the supplies.  We got a late start.  Oh well.  

Kels reading the recipe

Slicing apples for the apple pie while I was making the crust

2 finished apple pies.  Whew.

It was a fun day.  It had been a while since we had hung out.  It was long overdue!  

I was lame and didn't take pictures of all the cookies we made.  But trust me.  The kitchen was covered.  

Thanks for coming over Kels! 

Seasons change

EDIT:  The app sucks!  You can't adjust the size of the pictures, can't change the font, color or size.  So really, the post comes out all kinds of messed up.  Don't use it.  I've already deleted it off my phone.  Just FYI.

First, I'm using the new app I downloaded on my phone. It's the blogger app, so we will see how easy it is to post pictures and such.

With a couple of really hard freezes, the vines are looking pretty sad, about a month earlier than usual.

Way back when, the vines were all pretty and nice and now they look like this.

Welome to the world!!

Our very good friends Darrel and Jamie are the parents of this sweet boy.  Last March, they announced that Jamie was due in December.  Last Saturday night, I had the privilege of being in her delivery room to welcome miss Shyanne Elizabeth to the world!

Stats: 8 lbs 9 oz 20" long.  She is perfectly healthy and Jamie was in labor for only 3 hours.  Amazing!  She is so sweet and looks just like DJ when he was born.

Here she is!

Mom & Baby

Sucking her thumb

Daddy holding Shyanne for the first time

Grandma meeting her first granddaughter

I got home from the hospital around 1:30 Sunday morning.  Got some sleep and then Darrel brought this little munchkin over to hang out with us until they were able to bring Shyanne home from the hospital.

We absolutely love him!

DJ & I before we headed out to dinner

After dinner we got the phone call that they had made it home, so we gathered his stuff and headed over there.  Thank goodness it takes about 2 minutes to drive to their house because DJ was sooo excited to see his mommy and daddy, he couldn't hardly hold still in his carseat.  He was so concerned the whole time they were gone because as we showed him pictures of his baby sister, he saw the IV's in mommy's hand and thought she was hurt.  He is so tender hearted, it's so sweet.

DJ meeting Shyanne for the first time.  He's still not too sure about her, but he'll get there.

Chris holding Shyanne.  I think it looks good on him ;)