Baking Buddy

This girl has gotten to be where she wants to help me cook and see what is going on.  It is so cute.  Today I made Chocolate Chip Cookies for FHE and so she helped me.  There wasn't much on this, so I let her lick the beater.  She thought it was pretty good.

New Table

We were shopping at Costco for groceries and having fun when we started to go to check out Jon had to go back to get something we missed.  He caught back up with us before we made it to the register and he told me I needed to come look at this table.  I LOVED it.  It is so pretty.  And it was a really great price.  We left without the table, and Jon went back with our neighbor, who has a truck and bought it.  It is BIG.  But it will fit our family plus guests really easy.  So we are getting rid of our old table.

Christmas Gifts

I made these bean bags for the boys to use when we have family movie night.  It definitely took longer to make than I thought it would, and more bean bag fill than I thought I would need, but they turned out really good.  The boys love them.

I was thrilled when I opened this cookbook up on Christmas morning.  I tried the biscuits and gravy recipes to have for dinner one night and OH MY GOODNESS!!!  They were so good.  Everybody loved them.  I'm definitely going to have to make them more.

Happy New Year!!

We went down to Grandview to pick up the boys and have New Year's dinner with my family.  I also decided to make matching shirts, with my Cricut machine, to say Hello to the new year.  I thought they were all so cute, and everyone loved them.

7 year anniversary

The boys didn't want to come home after Christmas, they wanted to stay the week at Grandmas.  Well we hadn't packed enough clothes to do that, so I took the boys down on Friday.  Jon and I were able to spend the weekend together with Jocelyn.  It was nice.  On Monday was our Anniversary.  Jon's mom had come back Sunday, so she stayed home with Jocelyn while Jon and I went to the Yakima Steak Company for dinner to celebrate our 7th anniversary.  It was so good.

I had filet mignon with a baked potato....so yummy

Jon had New York Steak with 3 cheese macaroni, risotto, and green beans

Complimentary dessert for our anniversary

We had such a good time.  And the food was so good I would definitely go again.

They even gave us a $10 gift card as a gift for our anniversary.

I can't believe we have been married for 7 years.  It has just flown by.  We have had many ups and downs, but the ups definitely far outweigh the downs.  Jon got me the movie Hidden Figures for our anniversary.  The gift for the 7th anniversary is copper, so I got Jon a key chain that had a 2011 penny with a heart around 2011.  It says 7 down eternity to go.  I love it.  I hope he loves it too.  I am so grateful for the decision I made 7 years ago.  It was definitely the best decision I have ever made.  I love you more and more with every passing year.  Happy Anniversary Jon.

And another year is in the books.