My Favorite things from this Christmas:

Now that Christmas has come and gone, and we've had time to try out some of our new stuff, here's what we each like the best:

Jeramy has recently taken up road biking and has been struggling with it because the only bike available for him to use was a Mountain Bike. It works and does the job, but is very slow going. He desperately wanted to get a new Road Bike but those are extremely pricey. Luckily, things worked out in a good way and miraculously we were able to use some extra funds to get him this awesome new bike. He just got it yesterday so actually hasn't had the chance to use it yet, but is very excited to start next week.


Jeramy's parents gave us this wonderful little "flip" camera. If you haven't seen or heard of them (I hadn't) it's really cool. It just uses 2 AA Batteries, and can hold up to 2 hours of video. Then when you want to remove them from the camera, you simply plug it into your computer and move the files over. It's teeny and fits in my purse. So, while you can't do any fancy videoing with it, it's perfect for capturing those little moments that you have during the day!



Santa brought me this great baking cook book because I love to bake and really wanted to learn how to make lots of different breads. It's awesome! All you do is mix up a master dough that will sit in your fridge for up to two weeks and all you have to do is break off a grape fruit sized ball, shape it and bake it. I love it! It has tons of different rustic bread recipes and they are so easy and end up looking professional! (See my photo's below of the bread I made this morning.)







Every year Santa leaves little presents in the boy's stockings that are fun and small. This year along with sonic gift cards and "Backugon" collecting cards (apparently the new "Pokemon" craze that I don't understand) he gave each of the boys a CD from "They Might Be Giants." I Love that group and how weird and quirky their music is, but these are kids CD's that they have come out with in resent years one is about science and has songs that remind me of the things I learned in 7th and 8th grade science class like "Roy G. Biv" (colors in the rainbow) and "Elements". Then the ABC's has songs like "E eats everything" and " I C U" with says things like "I C U, N U R O K." (The entire song is just letters, very creative.) And the 123's is hillarious too. The boys LOVE these CD's and I recommend them to any mom looking for music that will appeal to kids who are outgrowing "The Wiggles" and "Sesame Street", but not quite ready to listen to "Taylor Swift".




Here is a video (taken with the Flip Camera in our car as we were driving) we took of the boys enjoying these songs. Cooper is in the backseat and is the one belting it out on the "Roy G. Biv" song.






One last thing I'll mention that Jeramy got and has loved, is some software called "Delicious Monster" for Mac's. This software found here uses the camera on your Mac Computer to scan any bar code on any book, movie, cd, electronic device, computer, etc.etc.etc. that you own and categorizes it for you. It's really cool for insurance because you have everything you own basically cataloged for you. And if you use Carbonite to back up your computer, you're all set in any emergency. Jeramy thinks it's the neatest invention ever and has been running around scanning everything from games, to clothing with this new software. He loves the scanner and is like the little kid playing with a new toy that he thinks is amazing. Very funny to watch on my end!