Christmas Basket!

Not knowing what to bring as a gift for Dad & Lena...I decided to go with a medely of things in a basket.  I found a cute "red drum" basket and filled it with a bottle of red wine (a yummy Pinot Noir--Red Bicyclette), some Hickory Farms Summer Sausage and aged cheddar cheese, crackers, and some gourmet apple butter.  I actually bought a bunch of apple butter jars from one of my co-workers who makes it from scratch!  I gave them as gifts to Mom, both Grandmas and kept one for myself...because it was really GOOD!!! 

Xmas Break Visit to Grandma Audrey's house.

Wayne got a few days off so he and I went on a day trip up to Camp Nelson to visit with Grandma Audrey and Grandpa Marvin.  Sorry, Wayne and I failed...we didn't take any photos but we did help Grandma and Grandpa set up their computer and internet so that they can navigate to our emails and blogs easier!

Christmas 2011 at the Grimes' House!!!

Wrapped and Ready!!!

Christmas is tomorrow...gotta get everything wrapped up and ready!!!

The Grimes at Christmas Time, 2011!!!

Dozens, Dozens & more DOZENS of cookies!!!

Kim and I must've gone CRAZY this year because we decided to give the gift of sugary treats to all the folks in our SPED department!  We made boxes for all the aides, teachers, clerical secretaries, bosses, etc!  We had found these really cute bakery boxes in Visalia at Hobby Lobby on one of our road trips in search of creativity and bargins.  I think we made 10 different kinds of goodies by the time we filled up all of the boxes!  We had peppermint bark, snicker-doodles, pumpkin bars, toffee chip cookies, spice cookies, haystacks, chocolate covered peanut butter patties, peanut butter covered Nutella patties, sugar cookies with a white chocolate peppermint Hershey kiss, and chocolate chocolate chip cookies!  They were VERY well received!!!  I then made some plates of cookies that I had left over to take to family!       

Christmas Pics at HHS!

Me an a few of my CRAZY art students...we were taking photos for a project!

My Girls & Our Christmas Tree!

Baylie has always been photogenic for a pup and more often than not she will "smile" for a camera...Ginger on the other hand rarely has that smile face (unless I get her to run around enough to pant first!) so unfortunately she looks a bit more stoic .