WOW Santa!!!!!!

Last night The Cisco Kid left Santa his cookies and milk and reluctantly went to bed because he knew that Santa would not come unless he was asleep.  The Cisco Kid woke up before the sun rose at 6:45 a.m. this morning.  He was so excited about all the gifts and could not wait to open them.  But first he had to read the letter Santa left him. 

  One of the gifts Grandma and grandpa got the cisco kid was a projector.  

The Chief and The Cisco Kid are putting together some playmobil sets.

Here The Cisco Kid is working on his energy lab. 

He loves to play in the water so Santa got him the Ramones water station with some color changing cars.  He could not wait until Ramones station was put together so he tested the color change in the sink. 

It was a nice day out so The Cisco Kid could play with his new toys.

Its 8:30 and we have been at it all day.  We are totally exhausted.  I need to re-phrase that! The Chief and I are totally exhausted.  The Cisco Kid is still ready to go.  I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas.

 

  

Merry Christmas

Our Christmas Eve starts out with a wonderful dinner of Honey baked ham, scalloped potatoes, corn, Brussels sprouts and rolls.  After dinner we have The Cisco Kid open his gifts from us.  Christmas day is always very busy with all of Santa’s gifts. 

  The largest Hershey kiss he has ever seen!

 The shirt has a guitar that really plays on it with a little amp. You can see the amp on his pocket.

 Grandma and Grandpa are opening their Christmas Eve gifts.  The Cisco Kid got them pens with Grandma and Grandpa engraved on them.

 He loves a personalized license plate.

 He is looking at a key chain with his name blinking in lights

 He loves his coin collection and we got he a wide variety of half dollars, dollar and president dollar coins. 

  The famous Hersheys Kiss!!!!!

 Love that KISS!!!!

 The Chief is putting batteries in his guitar ornament.

 Merry Christmas!!!

Preview my blog book completed

Yes it is all done.  The blog book turned out perfectly.  It is everything I hoped it would be.  I have been receiving many e-mails on the book.  Here is a preview.  I cannot tell you how happy I am with the quality of it.  I was able to easily download my blog into the program and create wonderful embellished and decorated pages.  I truly turned my blog into this wonderful document of history.

| Make Your Own Book

Recipies for my cookbook

I had my blog printed into a digital book and i was so impressed on how it turned out I am now going to turn all my recipies into a digital book through Blurb.  Over the next few weeks I will post lost of recipies so I can transfer them into my book.  All the food you see highlighted I have already posted the recipe.  Just click and you can view them. 

Appetizers:
Italian tomato-mozzarella-and-basil
Roasted red pepper cheese cake
Spinage, Artichoc Chedder dip
Vegetable Cream Cheese
Bacon & Swiss Quiche
Steamed Artichoke
Stuffed mushrooms
Crapes
Mango salsa
Chick pea snack
Deviled eggs
Roasted garlic spread
Stromboli Can also be a main dish.


Breads:
Scones
Pineapple spiced scones
Easy seven grain bread
Bisquick cheese biscuits
Pumpkin bread

Condiments & Salsas:
Hamburger relish
Sugar free barbecue sauce
Pimento cedar cheese
Mushroom brown gravy
Pineapple salsa

Drinks:
Non Alcoholic Bloody Mary
Fantastic Strawberry Killer Chiller

Salads:
Cucumber Barley salad
Antipasta Can also be an appetizer.
Sweet Brocoli salad,  15 minute meal
Red pepper Pasta
Easy pasta salad
Creamy cucumber salad
Chick- pea salad
Chicken salad
Chicken waldorf salad
Pasta salad with roasted red peppers

Dressings:
Roasted red pepper dressing
Goat and feta dressing
Cucumber cheddar dressing
Easy balsamic vinaigrette dressing 
 
15 minute meals with point system:
Vegetable meadly
Tortellini and Chicken with Sun-dried tomato Alfredo
Baked Mexican Chicken
Pierogies, vegetables and Gorgonzola
Beef and Vegetable stir fry
Chicken & brown gravy stir-fry
Chicken Gnocchi Alfredo
Beef & Broccoli stir fry
Herb Scallops
Layered Mexican Chicken Pie


Main dishes:
Homemade Lasagna
Homemade eggplant parmigiana
Spaghetti and garlic oil
White cheese pizza
Meatloaf
Chicken pot pie
Oven fried chicken
Chicken & dumplings
White Chicken Chili
Stromboli Can also be an appeitizer
Govatolli
Calzone
Egg souffle
Ditalini, egg and garlic
Red beans and rice
Chicken marsala and muchrooms
Turkey Croquetts

Beef:
Beef stew
London Broil
Italian hot dogs with fried peppers, onions and potatoes
Fried hot dogs and potatoes in tomato sauce
Fried bologna sandwiches
Home made tomato sauce

Pork:
Grilled pork tenderloin with pineapple
Sweet and sour ribs
Shredded BBQ pork

Side dishes:
Italian Meetballs
Scalloped potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Red garlic mashed potatoes
Potaot Salad
Roasted potatoes & onions
Glazed carrots
Sweet candy sweet potatoes
Roasted red and sweet potatoes
Cranberry sauce
Braciole

Soups:
My Family traditional good luck new years dish
Grains of the earth.
Vegetable soup
Minestrone soup
Beer cheese soup
Creamy cheese potato soup
Creamy vegetable soup
Cream of mushroom soup
Chicken & mushroom soup with puff pastry on top
Mushroom and barley soup
Roasted corn soup with red chilies soup
Chicken with cheese ravioli in tarragon broth  soup
Parmesan cheese pancakes in broth soup
Fresh creamy vegetable garden soup
French onion soup
Split Pea soup
Chicken vegetable soup
Chicken & noodle soup
Chicken & rice soup
Chicken corn & been soup
Turkey soup with rice mushrooms soup
Tomato basil soup
Wedded soup
Vegetable pesto soup

Desert:
Fresh zapalas
Yogurt Parfait
Connoil's
Ice box cake
Nuter Butter Peanut butter cake
Cream cheese coconut frosting
Cranberry Walnut Bread pudding with vanilla sauce
Bread pudding
Chocolate dipped pumpkin cookies
Halloween pumpkin cookies
chocolate dipped apricots
Spiced nuts
Sugar free spiced nuts
 
Christmas Cookies:
Strufalas
Almond Crescents
Smores
Almond cups
Coconut macaroons
Crisp sugar Cookie
Chocolate dipped lady fingers
Oat rageous chocolate chip peanut butter cookies
Neapolitan cookies
Almond rugalas
Biscotti
Oatmeal Cookies full of goodies
Thumb print filled with goodies

Merry Christmas visit

As we step into the Christmas holiday it is nice to have a visit with some friends.  The two boys having some fun with the train set.

Christmas cookies are ready to be shipped out.

Every year I make about 700 cookies to be mailed out to family and friends.


This year I made my Oatmeal cookies, Almond crescents, rugalas, Chocolate dipped lady fingers, Smores cookie, Oat rageous chocolate chip peanut butter cookie and two new cookies called Holiday thumbprint cookie and a chocolate marshmallow fudge cookie. I will post about the two new cookies later.

Holiday thumbprint cookie

Chocolate marshmallow fudge cookie 

Winter Break

Friday was the last day of school until January 3rd 2011. Mr. M wanted to have a Christmas party for his class. They took a vote on what activities they wanted to do and the majority wanted to build gingerbread houses. Since I am the Class mom I built a class web site from shutterfly and had a volunteer list available to all parents that wanted to bring in items for the gingerbread houses. I have been the class mom every year since kindergarten and this is the first year the majority of the parents come to all the parties. Since everyone was so generous and brought in so much for the gingerbread houses I decided to bring my Chocolate Fountain with Marshmallows, Bananas, Apples and Rice crispy treats for dipping.

Thursday Mr. M came back into school and set up this Christmas tree with presents for all the children under it. When the children arrived to school the next morning they were all so excited about the tree with presents for them. Mr. M told them that Santa came and delivered the tree with all the presents because his class was so good this year.

They use a milk carton for the foundation of the gingerbread house.  They use cake icing to make the gram crackers stick to the carton.   

 When the children saw the fountain they flipped. There must be something in a kids mind seeing all that chocolate flowing freely. Way to funny!!!! 

I just had to get some pictures of me and my little guy in here.

Mr. M is now ready to open his gift.  On one of our field trips Mr. M's handle to his cooler brake and he coulden't wheel it because it hurt his back so we all chipped in and got him a new cooler with a nice long handle.  We also included a gift card.