Ginger Bread Houses

On December 22 the younger children made ginger bread houses. Every year they create something different and unique.

Le 22 Decembre les enfants font des maison en pain. Tous les ans ils creent des differente choses et unique.Christina, Dallas, Brigitte & Maggie working on their houses.

Travaille sur leurs maisons. All the materials needed for making ginger bread houses.

Tous les materials pour les maisons en pain.
Natalie singing/chante to entertain all of us.
Christina working on her house.

Maggie spreading icing on a part of her roof to make it stick.

Dallas working on the details of his building.

Brigitte putting her walls together.

The Eiffel Tower

La Toure Eiffel

Made by: Dallas Michael

The White House

La Maison Blanche

Made by: MaryAgnes Danielle

(Maggie made Papa the President of her White House) The Empire State Building

(We renamed it The Outhouse)

Made by: Brigitte Tatiana

Candy Land

Made by: Brigitte Tatiana

The Barn/la grange

Made by: Christina Grace

St. Michael's Catholic Church/L'Eglise

Roswell, GA
Made by: Dallas Michael

Buche de Noel

Made by: Mom

Decorated by: Katia

Taste-Tested by: Christina

Christmas/Noel 2009

Merry Christmas

Joyeux NoelPapa relaxing Christmas morning

Papa se relache le jour de Noel
Mom is also relaxing
Maman se relache aussi

Christina & Dallas putting together Maggie's play kitchen.

Christina et Dallas assemble la cuisine.

Katia opening her gift from Joseph.

Katia ouvre le cadeau de Joseph.

Hanging out Christmas evening.

Relacher le soir de Noel.

(L-R) Layla (Joseph's dog) Joseph, Brigitte,Mom, Maggie, Christina, Natalie & Papa

Katia & Dallas

Brigitte's 13th Birthday

Happy Birthday Brigitte!

Joyeux Anniversaire!Brigitte making a wish.
Mom, Papa & Brigitte

Katia & Christina

Christina & Natalie

(Natalie really likes the Red Velvet Cake)

All of us except Joseph.

Thanksgiving 2009

Having fun Voila les parents

Mom & Papa Voila les garcons
Dallas Michael & Joseph

Voila les june filles

(L-R) Christina, Natalie, Katia, MaryAgnes & Brigitte Joseph reading one of MaryAgnes' books.

Joseph lire un livre de MaryAgnes.

Christina's & Natalie's Birthdays!

Christina's birthday was November 4th. Chrissy's favorite cake for her birthday is 'Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate truffles on top'!
Chrissy blowing the candles out.

Chrissy in her scarf that her godmother gave her for her birthday

Natalie's birthday was November 22nd.

Mom made Natalie a ginger-snap cheesecake for her birthday.

Natalie opening her birthday presents!

Mom's & Katia's Birthdays!

Our birthdays are actually in October but this was the first chance I got to post them.

Mom's birthday is on October 3rd.I tried my hand at making a Vacherin for mom's birthday.
Mom with her cake.
We gave mom a purse for her birthday that had 'Family Memories' written across it.

My birthday is October 9th. Me in front of my cake.

I think I'm looking at another camera but I'm not really sure.My favorite cake is: 'Black Forest'

My mom & sisters make the best!

South Carolina State Fair 2009

On Monday Oct. 19th we headed to Columbia to spend the day at the fair.

This is on the way.

Maggie isn't sleeping, she just happened to blink when I took the picture.
Maggie is really excited about the fair!

Maggie in the kiddie bumper-cars. She didn't understand the point of bumper-cars at first so she just avoided everyone.

We found out later that for some reason the little kids were supposed to avoid each other.

Dallas rode this. The 'Fire-Ball' swings back & forth while spinning and it goes rather high!

Brigitte & Maggie waiting in line at the 'China Dragon' kiddie roller-coaster.

Brigitte & Maggie are in the front seat.

This one is called the 'Orbiter'. Dallas is up under the 'E' in Orbiter.

Christina & Natalie enjoying Foot-Long Corn Dogs. YUM!!!!

Brigitte & Maggie on the kiddie swing.

Maggie on the magic tea-pot.

Dallas & Brigitte on the 'Polar Express'. It spins you backwards really fast.

Dallas is up-side-down on the 'Ring of Fire'. This one looked too scary for Brigitte to get on.

The story behind this picture is: Maggie really wanted to ride a 'big kid' ride with Dallas or Brigitte, so we thought this one was an 'easy' ride for her because all it did was spin around. You can't tell but Maggie is in the seat with Dallas. After the ride was finished Maggie told us that she would stick with the kiddie rides instead:)
Dallas & Brigitte rode the 'Spider' also.
This Giant Cock Roach is actually a cake made for the cake contest at the fair. NASTY!!
Maggie & Brigitte ended the day riding the Merry-Go-Round.

Everyone had a great time.