New Year's Eve

Dave worked all day while Kiera and I went grocery shopping and laid low because Kiera has a cold...so we are ringing in the new year at home. We had shrimp (and the beloved Al's sauce) and homemade chicken fingers for dinner. Kiera was thrilled because I let her drink Sprite which is the only good thing about being sick! Now we're going to watch a movie and eat popcorn. We wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous...

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Computer for Christmas

We got gram and dad a new toy for Christmas...a laptop. 

Kiera giving a computer "lesson."

Can't wait until they get Internet so they can read the blog!

New Toys

Kiera and I enjoyed a lazy day playing with our new toys :) 

Christmas Feast-ivities

1. We spent Christmas Eve at Mimi and Papa's house. We had our usual festive feast...fondue! Dessert was Cheesecake Factory red velvet cheesecake. 

 2.  Christmas morning was at our house. We had 3 out of 4 Kette kids at home on Christmas morning...that was the best present of all! Kiera was so patient. She woke up around 7:30 and we let her open one gift (a big tub full of Polly Pockets) while we waited for Ryan to come over.  Then we opened gifts and made monkey bread for Christmas Breakfast. 

 3.  Next stop on Christmas day was to Aunt Dorothy's house. Kiera enjoyed playing with her cousins, especially Karson who lovingly kept calling her "Sara." We managed to take a pretty good shot of Great Grandma Jean with her four great grandchildren. 

 4.  Final stop on Christmas Day was to  Jason's house. We had a fab-u-lous dinner of prime rib, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, garlic mashed potatoes. Jason has a great house which I'd gladly buy (it's for sale!) if it weren't in Wadsworth. Tyler's friend Erica joined us too. 

5.  The day after Christmas, we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Kette's. We had another fabulous dinner...steak, mashed potatoes, salad and corn. Dessert was Grandma's famous rum fruit cake.

 6. Two days after Christmas, we had a farewell dinner for Emily before she heads back to Chicago. We ate Ryan's famous Italian wedding soup, spinach salad, bruschetta bread and apple walnut pie with cinnamon ice cream for dessert. I love when we have all of the college kids home. 

Christmas Cookies

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Christmas Lights

Last night it snowed our first real snow, about 3 inches. To celebrate, we made hot cocoa, put on our jammies and got in the car to drive around and look at Christmas lights. This year Kiera knows her right and left (no more "kiss-miss lights on my side" like last year). We were only gone for about 20 minutes when Kiera started coloring with her bag of goodies we keep in the car. We told her that we were looking at lights, not coloring and she informed us, "I can do both!" Needless to say, we headed home shortly after that.

Angie's Cookies

We went to Angie's house this weekend to make "Angie's famous sugar cookies" that we all love so much! Kiera frosted six of her own cookies and enjoyed licking her fingers. Don't worry, we separated Kiera's cookies from the others, ha!

Letter from Santa

Kiera received a letter in the mail all the way from North Pole, Alaska from SANTA! She was so excited. The letter mentioned her being 3 years old, Bay Village, her chore of emptying the trash cans and her cousin Baleigh. After I read each of those words, she would repeat the word with the cutest, happiest, excited voice; it was the best! Special thanks to Papa who, through a work fundraiser, coordinated Kiera's letter. 

She also got a card from Grandpa in the mail today.