Dear Santa

We decided to give Santa a few ideas to choose 

from this Christmas.  

As you can see Daniel is still heavily 
influenced by his sisters.  

The chapstick was lip gloss but I convinced him that boys do not wear lip gloss but they wear chapstick.  

He was happy with that response.

   

Autumn's is missing in action.  But she wants all the practical things a young 6 year old would ask for: a real camera, a bracelet, and lip gloss.

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Look at these yummy brownies we had tonight as our treat for FHE.

The only problem is that I put almond extract in them.  

I personally like the almond hint in them but the hubby and the eldest girl didn't like it so much.

All the kids asked for seconds and I willingly let them because guess what?  

They had 2 cups of black beans, 

only a cup of agava (which is way better for you than sugar), and a few other ingredients.

The funny thing is that I told Mike what kind of brownies they were before we had dinner and as he was eating his brownie I said to him, "Not bad for having black beans in them."  

He apparently was not listening to me early and just looked at me totally shocked.  

Knowing that little bit of information ruined his brownie experience.

I could not stop laughing, his reaction was priceless.