Let the organizing begin!

  Today began the purge and clean.

Amazing how much STUFF came out of my pantry.

Mind you Diane once said if she didn't have something she could always come over the hill and find it in my pantry. She actually did it once when I was on vacation, but replaced it before I got home. :-)

  Empty and clean pantry!

 How many boxes of crackers and cookies can one have......

 .......and multiple boxes of the same kind of pasta?

 The  clean produced 5 bags of compost, 

 and lots of plastic and cardboard to recycle.

When I put it all back I had one empty shelf, so I moved in the pots and pans I use on a regular basis.

I will try it for awhile and may make more adjustments.

Snow Storm - December 30th, 2012

Mary.........how can you possibly miss this ;-)

Chocolates from BC

For the last few years, Pauls sister in Burnaby, has been sending us theses chocolates at Christmas.

You may notice a couple are gone.......That would be me. 

These chocolates are fantastic, they have exactly what a woman likes: chocolate and salt!

Christmas Morning

Once Brenna was up, we had breakfast and then opened presents.

Santa treated us all very well.

Santa has arrived

 Pauls stocking

 My Stocking

 Brennas Stocking

Now we wait for Brenna to rise from her sleep :-)

Ginger Cookie Making

Yesterday we spent the afternoon with the Van Kessels.
Isaac had a hockey game, he got one goal and one assist.

While at Peters we made ginger cookies.

  After the cookies cooled, it was all hands on deck to decorate the cookies.

Someone had an injury that needed repair.

Sashas Cookie.

Van Kessel Boys

Isaac and Sasha