INTERNET BLISS

Isn't the internet wonderful. Just think about it. You can email someone and get a reply the same day, instead of waiting a week or 2 for snail mail. (I still like letters in the mail too. There's something about holding a letter in your hand and then ripping it open to find out what's inside) It's just that email is almost instant gratification. Then you have Blogs (who thought that up). You can just ramble on about nothing or share ideas and thoughts. You can share your creativity with the world or just keep in touch and update family on the goings on in your life. I love to look up friends and family's blogs to find out what they've been up to and see their wonderful pic's. I LOVE to sit and look at all the wonderful blogs out there in blog land that give such great decorating advice and cute ideas (Here's where it can get tricky though..... I can sit for hours looking and suddenly realize I've wasted half the day. OH WAIT! the whole day is gone. I've enjoyed myself but really accomplished nothing) Already today it's 9:15 am and all I've really accomplished was driving the kids to school which took all of 5 min. of that time because I've been sitting at the computer, looking, reading and emailing. See the problem. Bliss vs. Addiction (is that too harsh). Anyway on with my ramblings. Now you have facebook. I finally joined up after forever because a friend did it and so of course I had to too. And now we see how you can get sucked in. Brandon is forever groaning because his mom is checking her facebook and it's just so wrong. It should only be for the teenagers. But what fun to be able to connect with people you haven't seen since grade school. Even just the fun of seeing others thoughts of the moment. WHAT A GREAT THING TO KEEP US IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD. We just have to remember to use it wisely.(like everything else in life!) HMMMM Maybe I should go do the breakfast dishes now. What do you think?

Winter Weather

            A View from my room. Does it make anyone wish they were here right now? It is pretty, but still too cold.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

We had a fun and crazy christmas eve at Jody and Dano's house. It was a houseful of people with our family, their family, Grandma and Grandpa, Larry,Becky, Grandpa Don, Daryl and Carol, Heather and Brandt and their kids were home for Christmas and then there was Ben and Mandy and their Kids. LOTS OF KIDS. We had a cute nativity with all those little kids and I didn't even get a picture. We had a lot of good food to eat and did a lot of visiting. We headed home so the kids could open their christmas eve gift. SURPRISE... P.J.'s.

Christmas Morning was a lot of fun. Dad got everyone up which would normally be a huge surprise but now

that he gets up at 5:30 every morning I guess it was to be expected. We got up around 6:15 and everyone had fun opening presents. Cassin didn't want to be left out and he called at 7:20. He hadn't even opened up his gifts. It was so fun to talk to him and hear all about his mission and the people that he has met and baptised. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and playing with the loot. Then we headed back over to Jody's for Christmas dinner. Not as many people Just our Immediate Nilsson family. Carol and Daryl and their kids had their own. It was YUMMY!  Dustin called while we were over at Jody's so everyone got to say hi. He sounded great and we had a wonderful visit. He told us he will probably be home around April 28th. WOW the time will fly. All in all we had a great christmas!

Cute Pictures!

A Day of Christmas Baking

We spent saturday getting some baking done. Kaitlin and Maddi were great helpers in making gingerbread cookies. Everyone took turns rolling out the dough. (It was a little crumbly because I had made it a few days earlier and we were only finally getting around to making them) Kaitlin was our FLOUR GIRL. She put flour everywhere. Everyone got to choose their own cookie cutters and we have a great variety. They turned out great if I do say so myself. Now we just have to get them Iced. Hopefully before christmas

After the cookie making it was time to start on Pies. I was making them for some of the ladies in town who would usually buy them for christmas at the Creamery.  We deciede that it might be a good idea to sell pies as a funraiser for Brandon's school trip to Costa Rica in 2011. We had a few mishaps trying to make pies with the whole family around and I think I started to lose it at the end of the day, but on the whole everything worked out and everyone got their pies. (There were even some for us to enjoy for the holidays).