Tiny Dancer

She's the definition of a natural athlete. She is a natural dancer. 

Decisions

I like to call this one, "The hard decisions of a girl's life."

Lips

Happy New Year from a girl who could give Angelina's lips a run for her money :)

(And her Christmas black eye is almost gone!)

Bring on 2015

I'm Happy New Year! Woobie and Racoon are dressed for the night festivities. 

Nic and Kate are too!

Any bets on when they will pass out tonight?  We shall see, but first....fireworks!

The cops drove by to make sure we weren't shooting guns and wished us a Happy New Year and to have safe fireworks!

Kids just had hot chocolate and marshmallows. They have informed us that they aren't tired and have no intention of going to bed...it's 9pm. Let's see if mommy or kids pass out first. 

Karaoke time!!

And we all made it to East Coast New Year. 

Happy New Year. Here is to looking forward to a wonderful 2015. 

Ice skating

The kids loved iced skating outside at Discovery Green!  The kids practiced on the kid rink and quickly graduated to the BIG ICE. They skated all by themselves and had fun passing all the people. Speed skaters, that's what I have, speed skaters. Next year...Rockerfeller Center!!!

Homemade Poptarts

With this warm rainy winter weekend, we have been spending our time in the kitchen. Yesterday we made strawberry cream cheese poptarts. I'm very proud of the kids, the tarts had to freeze over night and the kids were great with the wait. 

The dough...what can I say except anything that requires 2 sticks of butter and only yields 8 tarts (1/4 sticks each) better be good!

Fully decorated with royal icing and sprinkles. 

Yes, it was worth the wait!!! Wow these were good. 

Merry Texas Christmas Y'all

Merry Texas Christmas Y'all. We are dressed in our finest, direct from Santa himself...

As we play outside...

And enjoy our Texas Christmas Dinner of: ham, creamy Mac and cheese, green beans cooked with bacon, and corn bread. Mmmmm. What has Texas done to this Italian girl???