Merry Christmas Pie 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas! Gramma and Grandpa Maas came for Christmas lunch and pie time.  We had a White Elephant gift exchange with lots of fun presents.  Of course the pies got lots of lovely gifts and had lots of thank-yous to write.

Christmas Eve we baked Gramma Kessler's sugar cookies.  Kayt and Aubrey were the decorators.

Jacob was eating cereal- dreaming of the days when he will eat cookies!

Aubrey got a plate of cookies ready for Santa Claus...some carrots for the reindeer too!

Later that night she confided that she really didn't believe in Santa Claus...she was just testing him with the cookies! :)

Christmas morning came and time for stockings. 

Not everyone is completely awake...seems somebody was up helping Santa...

Santa ate his cookies but left a banana?

Stocking surprises!

                                                                  Merry Christmas!

I am thankful for PIE!

I got to spend Thanksgiving with my sweet pies! Although we missed having Uncle Zach and Uncle Nick there, we still had an awfully good time. 
Rachele started a new Thanksgiving tradition- a tablecloth that each person writes a thankful message on each year. 

After dinner we put up the Christmas tree.  It was Justin's turn to place the angel at the top of the tree.

We had lots of fun with Santa hats and sweet baby Jacob.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Easter Pie

I spent Easter with the pies and we had a grand time. We dyed eggs on Saturday and everyone agreed they came out wonderful!

Sunday after lunch we had an outdoor easter egg hunt, using the eggs we dyed on Saturday. Mama Pie and I hid the eggs, and the kids were pretty darn good egg hunters, except when it came down to that last hidden egg.

Some eggs didn't make it back to the fridge. This one ended up in the dogs tummy!

Where IS the last egg Mom????

I hate it when she won't give me a hint.

Happy Pies! Happy Easter!

Look who decided to take a nap in Justin's bed.

Happy Easter!