Made me laugh...

Scott and I were walking through Sam's Club yesterday and we hear this...

"Chew..................................Chew.................................Chew.....................STOP!"

We look over and one of the food demo ladies is talking to a girl who was about 13 or 14. Apparently she was demoing some sort of candy that was supposed to tingle. The girl was looking at her like she thought she was quite strange and I started cracking up laughing.

The rest of the night I would randomly blurt this out to Scott.

I know it's the simple things in life that amuse me but since it still amuses me just thinking about it I thought that I would share with all of you.

Christmas & New Years

We had a great Christmas...

We ventured out in the snow on Christmas Eve to church. It was a very fun evening and finally put us more in the mood to celebrate Christmas. Then we went home and finished up the last of the things we need to do for Christmas morning.

On Christmas morning we opened presents together and then went to Teresa's step-sister's where her Dad and step-mom were staying. We had a very yummy prime rib dinner with them and then went to Teresa's mom's and step-dad's for a second dinner of a yummy ham dinner.

Besides all of the food we enjoyed the time with family. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures at her step sister's but Scott did pick up the camera at her mom's so here are a few pictures of our day...

We have a lot more pictures but I won't post them all here :)

On the following Saturday wew were finally able to get out to visit Scott's folks and celebrate with them.

Then on New Year's Eve we went over to Carol's house and played games until it was time to ring in the New Year.

Today we went over to Teresa's mom's for dinner and to do some more celebrating and of course to play with Noelani. :)

A New Christmas Tradition

Shortly after Thanksgiving we were in a store and saw a kit for a gingerbread house and Gabby mentioned that she used to do them with Grandma Doris when she was little. So when I was walking through Sam's Club a couple of week's ago I purchased the kit that they had which was less expensive than the one in the grocery store and had way more candy, frosting and ginger bread.

Last night we decided to decorate it and put it together. It was a lot of fun! I (Teresa) had never done one before. Here are some pictures of the process...

Putting the walls together was the most difficult step. At one point all three of us were working on it. But we succeeded!

Right side of house.

Back of house.

Left side of house.

Front of house.

This was much more fun than what Scott was doing the night before...

Which then after we took this picture it snowed another 2 or 3 inches in the night.

What's Christmas without lefsa??

This is one of my absolute favorite Christmas traditions...we get together and make lefsa!

For those of you that don't know what lefsa is it's kind of like a tortilla only made with potatoes so they are light and VERY yummy. It is Scandinavian in origin and while traditionally it was made to put lutefisk in we NEVER eat that we put butter and sugar. After the initial making of them we've been known to put peanut butter on them or use them to put sandwich fixings in.

Here's what they look like after they've been cooked.

Anyway it's also a lot of fun to spend time with family and be silly together with the fringe benefit of something yummy to eat as well.

Here are a few pictures...

6 of us were working on lefsa...Noelani took a nap at least for a portion of the time and this is what Scott did. He determined that after 20 years he's finally warming up to lefsa and has decided that it's not so bad. Of course the rest of us don't mind to much because that leaves more for us to enjoy. :)

And of course the other highlight was to spend a little bit of time with Noelani! She was very cute as always.