Family time

After the party we stayed the weekend with my parents to celebrate Christmas early since Lauren was in town. We also got to spend some quality time with her new boyfriend Eric too. One of the traditions my family has is to make Poppyseed Pancakes. It's a Slovac dessert and is a long process...especially when you quadruple the recipe! Basically it's a potato based dough rolled out thin like a tortilla. You heat them up in a hot pan until they get some brown spots on them, slather it with butter on both sides and spread a ground poppyseed/sugar mixture on them. Then you tightly roll them up. They are so much better reheated so that a little of the butter melts and makes the sugar liquify a bit. Ahhhhh we could eat like 8 a day! Soooo bad for you, but totally worth it! You will fail a drug test after eating one of these ;)

Micah and Hilary were the rollers, Lauren and Eric were the flippers, and I spread the butter and poppyseed. Aiden just made a mess, and Devin cheered us on :)

Yeah, there is flour everywhere and it is such a mess!

Smooches!

That was a shirt Lauren made for an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party last year...the bow was my idea ;)

Since we had the whole family in town for probably the last Christmas for a few years at least, my dad really wanted to take us back to a spot where we have taken a few family photos in the past. Alas when we arrived, we found that the tower we took our pictures on was gone!! So we made do with the playset instead. Note that it was obviously cold out, and Devin had just woken up from a nap. He was not a happy camper.

And then when Devin kicked Aiden in the head, Aiden was no longer a happy camper...

We finally got a decent shot with someone's camera-thanks to Eric for taking the pictures for us!

I think Lauren was hamming it up for Eric a bit.

We found a fence to put our cameras on to use the self timer and get everyone in the shot...this was a test shot.

I didn't make it in time for this one, and as you can see, Aiden was just done with the whole being out in the cold situation...

And of course the last shot I get doesn't turn out! There was no way the boys were going to tolerate any more picture taking. I'm sorry this was really the only picture that Eric was in with all of us...oh well :(