This is how we roll!

So it's Christmastime. I understand how some of you living in more tropical locales such as Florida may have been unaware. It's -17 degrees right now once you include the windchill ( a downright balmy 5 if you don't). It was a bright and sunny 50 yesterday, so the sudden change was a bit of a surprise. I'm looking forward to tomorrow where we'll get back up to a high of 12 if we're lucky.

So, as I was saying, it's Christmastime. If you can't tell by the weather, you can tell by the treat-making. In the last few days we have made 12 dozen cookies, 6 batches of pomanders, and 14 pounds of fudge. Alas, Nicole is giving almost all of it away. I guess it's for the best but it's always tough to see those perfectly-"ripened" pomanders go out the door.

Crushing the "secret ingredient"

Demonstrating "how we roll"

This was a portion of the pomanders. We did two rounds of each color, so this is maybe 2/3 of them.

Fuuuuuuuuudge....

The cookies.

Another exciting thing we did this week was successfully cutting Noah's hair. I think it's the shortest we've done it so far and I think it looks pretty good.


And a bonus future blackmail picture just for kicks. At least he looks happy :)

Straight No Chaser

Now for a bonus for those of you who have held on this long, here's a video from Straight No Chaser, an a cappella group from our grad school alma mater Indiana University. They're pretty talented, and unbeknownst to me, apparently a youtube sensation (as evidenced by the nearly 9 million views of this particular video). You should check out some of their other videos if you have some spare time. I don't have the spare time, but I watched them anyway ;)




~Kevin