Happy Birthday!

13 years ago we welcomed our beautiful baby girl.  She was 7 lbs 7.7 oz and absolutely perfect.  I'm so proud of the wonderful person she is becoming.  We love you, Bear, Happy Birthday!!

Christmas Cookies

Today is my daughter's birthday, but I can't get any pictures to upload so I'll have to post more about that tomorrow.  Meanwhile, here are some fun Christmas cookie pictures!

Happy UnBirthday!

The Bahlmann's sent us UnBirthday presents in our Christmas package.  We had an UnBirthday party, and opened presents.  It was a fun way to spend the evening.

Lots of stuff

St Nicholas dropped off a friend for our Elf, Buddy.  Her name is Mistletoe (Missy for short) and Carlye says that she is Buddy's long lost sister.  They've been up to a lot of mischievous things, here are a couple of pictures:

Carlye had regionals on Saturday.  I meant to call Annemarie and Julianna and tell them about it so that they could come, but I forgot to do so (I'm sorry!).  The music was beautiful - really beautiful - and as soon as the videos have been uploaded to the computer I'll post on or two.  Here's a picture of her plaque:

An old picture of Noah that we found.  I thought that it was so cute I had to post it.

I've received some really fun gifts lately.  Thank you, Bahlmann's, for my salt & pepper shakers.  Carl's mom gave me the cute mug - but dropped it and then glued it back together.  I tried to make warm milk in it, and it leaked - so so sad.  The pillowcase was a gift from one of my friends - isn't it awesome?!?

So so sad

My Cocoa Motion died on Friday.  It wasn't spinning very well, and I took the lid of to see what was going on and it stopped COMPLETELY.  I tried to unplug it, plug it in and start again, but all to no avail.  I am truly sad.  My kids and I make hot cocoa or cider or (our new favorite) hot vanilla all the time.  It's one of our favorite go to's for a quick and easy warm up on cool days.  Or sad days.  Or "I just need a cup of hot chocolate and a good book" days.

Truly a tragic day in the Pfiester household.

1st deer & St Nick

Last night Nathanael shot his very first deer.  He was SO proud.  It's a nice 8 point (4x4) white tail.  It was freezing last night, so he and his daddy had to gut a deer in the windy, freezy weather, but it was all worth it to him.  Great job, Nathanael!

Last night St Nicholas came.  Each of the kids had a book, a Christmas ornament, a Reese's Christmas tree candy, a lg Hershey kiss that looked like a Santa Hat, and 1 gift.  Noah was given a reindeer hat game, and he loved it so much he wore it to school.  Nathanael was given a camouflage ball cap with a flashlight inside the visor.  Carlye was given a female Elf on the Shelf (her name is Mistletoe, by the way, but Carlye will call her Missy for short) and she was ecstatic.  I LOVE my kids.

Happy December

The picture above is of Sam and one of his friends with us at Gatti Land - and, of course, Carl and I had to photo bomb them.

The turkeys feeling cocky after surviving Thanksgiving day.

Putting up Nani's Christmas tree