Trent was the VIP

Trent was so excited at the beginning of the week. He was made the VIP in his Kindergarten class and got to bring home a special friend with him. Trent got to bring Mickey mouse home with him for a week. Here is a picture with him and Mickey.

Trent and mommy filled out a journal page for each day that he had Mickey and what he did with Mickey on those days. We then decorated the page with stickers of the holidays. Here is what the page turned out like and a picture of Trent with the page.

We then filled out a VIP page with his favorite things and a picture of him on it. We then decorated that page too. Here is the pictures of the page and one with Trent with the page.

Trent looks sad in the picture because he knew that Mickey had to go back to school today so another special child will be able to become VIP next week and take Mickey home. But we are very proud of Trent for being the VIP this week. He is my little helper and I am sure that he tries to help as much as he can at school too.

Decorating for the holidays

Well I have finally got my house all decorated for the holidays this year. This was a really hard task for me to do this year. This was always my mom's favorite thing to do at this time of year. So we let her do the inside of the house and we decorated the outside. This is the first year without my mom so I needed to do it on my own. So here is what my house turned out like.

This is the Top of the DVD player.

This one of the shelves above the TV.

Here is another shelve above the TV.

Here is the Front door.

And next to the Computer Desk in the Living room.

This Shelve is in Tribute to my mom this year. We bought her a Christmas bear with the year the she left us on it. She really loved collecting Christmas bears.

Here is a picture of our main tree that Santa will leave presents under.

Here is the Tree that we have in the living room. It is a much smaller tree than the main tree that we have up.

And our little tree that is on our Cable box.

Hope that everyone has a great Holiday.

Holiday Baking

Well it is that time of year again. Time to start the holiday baking. I have been baking up a storm. I love to bake it also helps me be close to my mom since she is the one who taught me how to bake. She was a great baker. We would always have fresh baked bread, cinnamon rolls, cookies and lots more when I was little. This year I made everything with the Splenda for baking and Splenda Brown sugar. With Eric and Bruce both being diabetic I need to cut out the sugar. Here are some Peanut butter cookies.

Here are some Chocolate Cookies.

Here are some Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies.

Here is the Rice Krispie squares that I made for my kids. They really love these things.

Here are many tiny little Pumpkin Bread loafs.

Here are some Oatmeal Raisin and Oatmeal Craisin cookies.And then of course you have to clean up afterwards here is a picture of Eric and Trent doing the dishes afterwards. Trent has become our little helper around the kitchen. He enjoys helping with the dishes and making dinner with us.