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December, 2008

  1. Holiday Traditions

    December 19, 2008 by Monica Sepper

    Growing up, my family would make Christmas cookies every year.  This is something my Mom & Dad started on their very first Christmas together.  We start by making the dough, then it chills for a couple of hours.  Next we roll out the dough and make cut out cookies.  We bake them, let them cool and then frost them.  We had so much fun!! Katie Lynn helped this year.

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    Mommy & Daughter picking out a cookie cutter to use

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    mmm….Testing out the dough, making sure it taste okay

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    Daddy & Daughter getting ready to roll out the dough

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    End product, they sure are yummy.  We are excited to get these passed out to family and friends.


  2. Stuck

    December 18, 2008 by Monica Sepper

    Katie Lynn loves to crawl under things, between things, up onto things…..pretty much any where we will let her.

    We crack up when she gets stuck. Enjoy

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  3. What was that noise?

    December 17, 2008 by Monica Sepper

    T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…..

     

    oh wait, wrong night. 

     

    A couple of nights ago, we were very tired.  It was a Monday night and we were so tired that we went to bed at 8:30. We just knew we were going to get a great nights rest.  At about 10:30 I heard some wind and storm clouds.  I woke up and wanted to check the weather to see what was coming.  There was a huge storm cell in Plano, just south of us but moving North-North East.  No worries, then they said there is a tornado, okay, still now worries.  About 10 mintues later, this storm cell is in Allen, a little closer but still moving North-North East.  This cell was moving very fast.  We check the weather 1 more time, turn off the TV and go back to bed.  In the next couple of minutes we hear sirens, no, not ambulance sirens, I mean, loud sirens that make you jump 10 feet in the air.  We flip back on the TV, hear the warning from the sirens, “take cover, tornado”. SERIOUSLY?!?! We went to bed early for this? 

     

    I come out to the hall closet, pull out some junk that we have been meaning to get upstairs and out of the way.  We then find ourselves sitting in the closet waiting to see what is going on.  Tom is busy checking things out and about 5 minutes later, gives us the okay and back to bed we go.  We were really never in any danger but when you hear those sirens, scary.

     

    It is nice to know they work.  We come from Lubbock and they do not have these warning sirens.  All is well and it was an adventure, and of course…..we took pictures. ;)

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    I am still tired….and not happy to have been woken up

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    Katie Lynn is not very impressed

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    Tom is all smiles, like always, he is always happy go lucky and he took care of Wrigley.

    He also felt the need to show some school spirit. GO TECH!


  4. Visiting Santa

    December 16, 2008 by Monica Sepper

    We were not sure what to expect when visiting the Jolly Man this year.  We knew that Katie Lynn would either be happy or very upset. Can you guess which Katie Lynn we got?

    We decided to visit Santa the the Willow Bend mall.  Very neat set up.  We even had to walk through snow to get to Santa.

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    Katie Lynn wasn’t sure what to think of the white stuff falling.

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    We made it to Santa!! Katie Lynn was just beside herself. Santa was all smiles and Katie Lynn…not so much.

    We even got to take a family photo at the Polar Express. 

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    We are loving the holidays!!!