Documenting life...: Cookie Painting

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Cookie Painting

Yay! I'm posting Christmas pics! We were in AZ for almost 2 weeks...it was a great vaca. We were eXtremely spoiled. I cooked a big UNO time in that entire stay. I rarely did anything really. Time to get to the gym and work the cookies off my butt. A favorite tradition from Jaspers mom is cookie painting. For years the adults would do it...it was so fun, well it still is, but it's even more fun now that we have all of these bobble head children to do it too! That's the beautiful Ashley on the far right (an almost -but whose counting- family member).

Tae didn't really want to paint....just eat. And eat some more.
My seXy Jasper.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Looks like fun. I was just talking to your mom and she said that she had so much fun with all of you there. Because you have all the photos; you can relive all that fun over. That is why photos are so important! Mechelle PS I have never seen any cookies on your back side!; January 7, 2008 at 7:56 AM
tiffunny said...: Glad you're back! I missed your posts! Painting cookies sounds fun. Was it super messy or is it better than letting a kid try to use a knife with frosting?; January 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Anonymous said...: What cute pictures. I can see they loved it. Good tradition!; January 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Annette Larsen said...: cookie painting, how funny. looks like tons of fun though!; January 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Lindsay said...: Looks like you had fun. I have to admit, I'm so glad you're back, I missed you!; January 7, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Jen-ben said...: For sure better than using a knife...paint brushes are much smaller than huge knives...and kids LOVE it!!; January 7, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Angie said...: How is it that we are both in Flag probably only a few blocks from one another and never got together??? We have to fix that. Looks like you had a great holiday, happy new year.; January 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Sandy said...: I want to paint cookies!!; January 13, 2008 at 5:57 PM

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Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.