Shucking Sweet Corn @ Nebraska City Grandma's House

The kids & I went down to Nebraska City last week and had supper with my parents. My mom got some sweet corn and the kids helped her clean it. Amazingly, Samantha did get her hands a little dirty and helped pull a few of the husks off the corn! Alden just wanted to eat the corn as soon as they pulled the husk off! He had a few bites of corn on the cob before it was even cooked - yuck!! After they were done cleaning the corn, they had to check and see how their pumpkins were growing. They each planted pumpkins this summer and the vines are now growing out of control. But still no pumpkins.

Hair Cut and Sandy Birthday

Alden got a new Style a week ago. Sam would like to point out her hair was cut too. It was also Sandy's Birthday and we went out to ruby tuesdays with the McKnight side that Saturday night Debbie got her aprons with matching ones for the kids!

Memorial Day Cookie Time with Grandma McKnight

When we told Samantha that there was a holiday coming up and the colors were red, white, & blue, she immediately said "I need to make cookies with Grandma McKnight and put red, white & blue sprinkles on them!!" So, Doug called his mom and told her that Samantha needed to make cookies. She made some cookie dough and Samantha helped her on Sunday evening. They made "Grandma Barta" Sugar cookies, which involves rolling the dough into a ball, then rolling that ball in sugar and then smashing them on a cookie sheet and then adding the sprinkles. Alden was quite jealous that he couldn't help, so we had to keep him entertained the whole time. :( But, he did get in on the "cleaning" at the end because you can imagine that all the sugar and sprinkles makes for a BIG mess! :)

New Year's Eve

Doug & I went to a movie on New Year's Eve ---- at 4:30pm. (I know we are getting old....) Doug's mom volunteered to watch the kids while we went to the movie and Jodi came down to help watch the kids. We saw "Yes, Man" and it was really good. Sadly, it was only the 4th movie we saw in 2008! After the movie, for some excitement we went grocery shopping! haha. The kids had a great time at Grandma McKnight's house. They wore their sweaters that match their stuffed monkeys! We watched a movie when we got the kids to bed and we barely made it to midnight!