Getting Started

This past weekend my sister Mary came up to Rochester and we had a shopping/baking weekend. There was no school on Friday so she took a day off work too and we enjoyed a "sisters weekend" together.

Arriving mid day on Friday we refueled our bodies at Valentino's before starting out on our trek through several stores. Our main purpose was to have fun and in the process we both got started on our Christmas shopping. We finally slowed down about 9:30 that night after hitting quite a few stores.

Checking out some cool journals from Hobby Lobby.

These are the fruits of our shopping endeavor. We of course, had to leave everything concealed in packages, beacuse as you know "it is the time of year for secrets."

Saturday was our baking day. We made cinnamon rolls and tea rings. Our men came to the rescue for us when we rolled them out and realized we didn't have any cinammon. Off to the store they went and came home with the necessary ingredient for cinammon rolls.

These were actually our ginger bread boys, they just got made into stars instead.

My niece who lives in the cities came down for the afternoon and there was time for a game of "Settlers" with her family.

Mary brought her mixer along too. We ended up with a nice supply of goodies.

Saturday was a rather cold and snowy day. We looked out at the little pond in our backyard to find a whole flock of geese taking a little rest on the migration south. We counted over 30 geese. It was cool to watch them swoop in for the landing. Normally we only see ducks on the pond except at this time of the year.