Saturday, January 3, 2009

After the holidays...

I have been waiting for this moment for veeeery long time. The holidays are over and I am sitting here at my best friend computer, eating my husbands best spaghetti sauce (without the spaghetti part) :-), listening to the sound of fire in our freshly built fireplace and my favorite lifetime movies :-). It is close to midnight, and everyone is sound asleep and if I had any Christmas cookies, I would definitely munch them all. I just can't wait to post few photos we took over the holidays. I know I haven't been too good updating, but the business is keeping me so busy and so are the boys. All three! :-) (my Hub included).
First I would like to share a recipe for Czechoslovakian Bars, grandma made for us. They were sooo good, that we had to ask twice for a new batch to photograph them. They actually disappeared withing few hours form the time Steve's mom delivered them. She found this recipe some place and tried them... and you know what? They really are one of the best cookies I have had! :-) I guess it has something to do with the Czechoslovakian part :- Grandma, thank you so much! We really loved them!

These are the famous "Czechoslovakian Bars", and the recipe:

Don't we look like we baked the cookies? :-) We just played cooks that day :-)

We also got to see Santa, like every year. We take photo every time to see how the little men have grown. Wanna see the progress? :-) It is sooooooo funny! :-)






After the fun sequence, it wouldn't be fair to skip the rest of this year's Santa visit. The trick in taking a good photo with Santa is that we always come the last ones at the end of Santa's hours and he lets us play and take lots of photos. Last year, Jesse was helping Santa with his bag full of presents and this year he helped him to take letters out of Santa's mailbox. Cool huh? :-) Jesse is such a big helper! :-) He just LOVES helping! :-)

This year's helper
Last year's helper

... aaaaaaaand.... here is couple more photos for fun, Jesse and Lucas writing letter to Santa, and daddy opening Jesse's gift from school. They made these beautiful calendars and each month had a different picture made out of hand prints. BEAUTIFUL! We LOVE IT JESSE! AND YOU TOO! :-)