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Christmas just isn't Christmas without an Elf Yourself video.  Stewart and Evie are my favorites, they look hardcore.

Our "Cookie House"

This week we made our annual gingerbread house for family home evening.  Little Stew liked to refer to it as the "cookie house".  I had forgotten how much fun it is to decorate a gingerbread house and had to constantly remind myself it doesn't matter what it looks like, it's for the kids and let them decorate it.  It was hard, I'm Patsy's daughter.  :)  Here is the fun we had:

Evie on display with the candies. 

We had to downsize our original plans to get them all to fit.

Stewart gluing the house together with awesome sugar glue.

Feeding the kids strings of sugar glue.  It's pretty fun stuff

 once it starts to cool and you can manipulate it.

Stewart demonstrating his proper icing technique.

Finally it's time to decorate.

Here is the finished product.  We felt like Strawberry Shortcake should live here.

Keeping my fingers crossed

He's excited to have on his big boy underwear.

I started potty training Stew on Thursday this week and I think we're just about done.  He's been doing great. I was extremely nervous about nights, but he's been waking up dry, so whew!  Hooray for being done with diapers.

This week in Pictures

Click on the picture to make it bigger.  From left to right:

1. One happy little stuffed dog.  He has been loved to death since Evie's first birthday.

2. Putting up Christmas Decorations.

3. How Stewart and the kids watch movies most of the time.

4. Evie realizing she's pretty funny.

5. Evie taught herself how to whistle this week.

6. Nothing better than watching the snow fall.

7. Stew loving baseball right now and trying to hit anything he can with his bat, including Evie and myself.

8. I sewed my very first dress.  My model wasn't cooperating, but it's cute on.

9. Making "puffy blooms" for Evie's hair.