A few years ago we made sugar cookies for Christmas day. We had so much going on that we hadn't had time to frost and decorate them. Aunt Donna stepped in and along with Ammon & Talmage, Garrett was just a baby, started decorating them. We thought to ourselves this is alot of fun and the boys loved spending extra quality time with Aunt Donna. The next year we desided that we would do this as a Christmas Eve tradition. Some people read the Christmas Story, we decorate cookies. Don't worry I read the Christmas story to the boys earlier in the month and even sang songs to them. Anyway, now we have alot of fun on Christmas eve. There is always so much to do that night. Preparing for the next day and making sure the boys are clean and ready for Christmas morning. Every year I swear it's going to be less stressful. I'm still working on that. So we ate our Mexican food dinner early, because the resturant we go to used to close at 5 on Christmas eve. This year, they didn't close till 10, but still it was nice to have dinner at 5 and get to the cookies. It's a whole family thing. Aunt Carol, Aunt Donna, Papa, Daddy, Nana, Mommy and the boys.
Papa was helping Ammon to see how thick they could get the frosting on a single cookie!!Aunt Carol helped Garrett this year.
Nana is great at decorating.
This is Aunt Donna with Talmage. She is the master of making new colors.
Michael is really starting to get into the decorting thing.
Spencer couldn't wait till Christmas; he chose to eat his cookie frosting first!
This year we think that our cookies were excellent.Very well decorated. Each year we have a cookie decorating contest....everyone wins. Last year Michael was the judge with catagories like "MOST LIKELY TO PUT SANTA IN DIABETIC COMA" That award went to Talmage. He puts enough frosting on to choke Santa and the sprinkles are piled high. This year, Michael picked the catagories like 'MOST LIKELY TO BE ON THE FOOD NETWORK" and my Dad picked the cookies. By the way I won that one. Take that Rachael Ray.
These were the cookies for Santa!Yummy!
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Love the white beard, Dad!! Mom hasn't changed a bit - still looking young!! It's great to see the family. I think frosting on Christmas eve would be a fun tradition - maybe we'll try it next year!
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