Just got home from the Downtown Christmas Stroll--so fun!--and got the kids to bed. I thought I'd blog while the Christmas letters are printing...
Thursday night, Addie made this tropical cream pie. We wanted to bake a pumpkin pie, but we were out of evaporated milk. Ad had a meltdown about that, so I thought maybe a cream pie would work since we did have pudding, heavy cream, bananas, and I was putting pineapple on the homemade pizza and would have leftovers. She whipped up instant banana pudding and stirred in bananas, pineapple chunks, and shredded coconut and filled the pre-baked shell. Then she whipped up some heavy cream and sugar with a dash of vanilla and coconut extracts and I spread it on the pudding for her. Then she had the idea to sprinkle the top with coconut and garnish with the banana slice and the dollop of whipped cream. It was really good and so cute! Playing "Cookin' Mama" on the wii is paying off big time!
On Wednesday, Heidi lost her first tooth at school, but she lost the actual tooth. On Thursday, one of the "helpers" in her class had found it and put it in a little plastic box shaped like a tooth that hung around her neck and she brought it home. She wanted a pillow like Addie's (it hangs from the bed post so the tooth fairy can get to it easier), so between 7:20 and 7:45, I whipped up this little pillow. It has an embroidered flannel tooth applique that doubles as a pocket for the tooth. We tucked her in after taking this picture, and the tooth fairy brought her a whole dollar!
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Tonight we went to the stroll, as I mentioned earlier. I was/am feeling pretty sick, but dearest Deb picked up my girls from school today and played with them from 3-5 so I could take a long nap with James. I took some emergency and some cold meds and slept over 2 hours, and felt pretty good. So we headed out. First stop: Santa...
Heidi looks pretty naughty in this shot!
Then we walked down the street to the Murray Hotel to hear "The Polar Express" read by this conductor (we stopped at Truex Furniture to see excerpts from the Nutcracker danced in their attic on the way).
The Murray was packed, but cozy, and we found some standing room near the Holms and the Claars.
James seemed to be in awe and loved ringing his bell and making train noises with the crowd.
Love this sign at the front desk!
On the way to see Frosty the Snowman, we saw this spaghetti tree in the window of Adagio restaurant.
Heidi & Addie with Frosty the Snowman at the Grabow building
James with Frosty
Here we are (Heidi is on my lap) riding on the Yellowstone caroling bus. We rode around town looking at the lights and singing with 12 strangers, and it was FUN!
Here I am with the kids in front of the Yellowstone Bus--I want my own bus! They are so cool.
After the bus, we went inside Pura Vida salon where they were doing funky holiday hairdo's. Rich took this through the window of the salon--see me & Heidi in the background watching Addie get funkified?
James has some cake & cocoa while waiting for the girls
Heidi got tinsel-y pony-braids and a hot pink flower!
Addie got cool little top knots and 3 crazy ponies...the girls loved thier crazy hair so much, we took our Christmas card picture right after this.
Thursday night, Addie made this tropical cream pie. We wanted to bake a pumpkin pie, but we were out of evaporated milk. Ad had a meltdown about that, so I thought maybe a cream pie would work since we did have pudding, heavy cream, bananas, and I was putting pineapple on the homemade pizza and would have leftovers. She whipped up instant banana pudding and stirred in bananas, pineapple chunks, and shredded coconut and filled the pre-baked shell. Then she whipped up some heavy cream and sugar with a dash of vanilla and coconut extracts and I spread it on the pudding for her. Then she had the idea to sprinkle the top with coconut and garnish with the banana slice and the dollop of whipped cream. It was really good and so cute! Playing "Cookin' Mama" on the wii is paying off big time!
On Wednesday, Heidi lost her first tooth at school, but she lost the actual tooth. On Thursday, one of the "helpers" in her class had found it and put it in a little plastic box shaped like a tooth that hung around her neck and she brought it home. She wanted a pillow like Addie's (it hangs from the bed post so the tooth fairy can get to it easier), so between 7:20 and 7:45, I whipped up this little pillow. It has an embroidered flannel tooth applique that doubles as a pocket for the tooth. We tucked her in after taking this picture, and the tooth fairy brought her a whole dollar!***
Tonight we went to the stroll, as I mentioned earlier. I was/am feeling pretty sick, but dearest Deb picked up my girls from school today and played with them from 3-5 so I could take a long nap with James. I took some emergency and some cold meds and slept over 2 hours, and felt pretty good. So we headed out. First stop: Santa...
Heidi looks pretty naughty in this shot!
Then we walked down the street to the Murray Hotel to hear "The Polar Express" read by this conductor (we stopped at Truex Furniture to see excerpts from the Nutcracker danced in their attic on the way).
The Murray was packed, but cozy, and we found some standing room near the Holms and the Claars.
James seemed to be in awe and loved ringing his bell and making train noises with the crowd.
Love this sign at the front desk!
On the way to see Frosty the Snowman, we saw this spaghetti tree in the window of Adagio restaurant.
Heidi & Addie with Frosty the Snowman at the Grabow building
James with Frosty
Here we are (Heidi is on my lap) riding on the Yellowstone caroling bus. We rode around town looking at the lights and singing with 12 strangers, and it was FUN!
Here I am with the kids in front of the Yellowstone Bus--I want my own bus! They are so cool.
After the bus, we went inside Pura Vida salon where they were doing funky holiday hairdo's. Rich took this through the window of the salon--see me & Heidi in the background watching Addie get funkified?
James has some cake & cocoa while waiting for the girls
Heidi got tinsel-y pony-braids and a hot pink flower!
Addie got cool little top knots and 3 crazy ponies...the girls loved thier crazy hair so much, we took our Christmas card picture right after this.
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All in all, a very fun night. Now I must finish up some mailing prep and hit the hay for another busy celebrating day tomorrow (starting with the ward breakfast)!
1 comment:
What fun things you have to do around your neck of the woods! The caroling bus sounds SO fun. IF you lived closer I would buy one with you and the Greggs and the Melins could cheer up America!
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