Friday, December 31, 2010

Christmas Baking



Do you enjoy baking for Christmas? I do! Ok, honestly, I enjoy baking most any time of the year, but Christmas gives me an extra reason to spend days preparing delicious treats.

This year, our yard provided a bounty of pecans and thus the inspiration for our baking projects. This year, Bryan worked with me in the kitchen to create pecan tassies, pecan turtles, pecan logs, sugar & spice pecans, three pepper pecans, and spicy pecans. In addition to our pecan treats we created spritz cookies, Belgian waffle cookies, and sponge candy.

Now, I enjoy baking in large quantity, but I know we shouldn't eat baked goods in large quantity. That's we prepared bags of goodies for some of our Amarillo friends and family - to share a little Christmas cheer. If you listen closely you can hear the sounds of happy tummies from all across Amarillo. :)

I'll admit, I haven't downloaded the pictures from my camera yet, so this artful picture of the goodies is from our good friend Janet. Thanks, Janet!

Friday, December 24, 2010

A White Family Christmas Memory

Bryan's brother Lem decided it would be a good idea to give Gene a special Christmas present this year.



Gene thought it was a fabulous gift. Esther, well, that's another story!



Gene even enjoyed the gift from a far.



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Merry Christmas!

Saturday, December 04, 2010

KinderKonzerts 2010

Nothing gets one into the Christmas spirit more than 5,900 young children singing Christmas carols. For the past two days I've been busy with a team of volunteers and musicians entertaining and instructing these youngsters at the symphony's KinderKonzerts.

Merry Christmas!