Cookie Bake & Utah Fun

The entire crew (well not quite, but as many as we could gather!) What a crazy bunch we are!

 

My girls ADORE Auntie Leese. She lets them

explore in her room and gives them makeup brushes and lots of cuddles. She is really the best Auntie around!

Every year growing up, I would look forward to the annual cookie bake with my cousins. All of the Aunts and Grammy would supply us with endless amounts of cookies, frosting, sprinkles and we would all go to town decorating and designing cookies. I always remember my cousins cookies looked so much better than mine, and I hoped one day to be able to decorate a cookie that was half as good as theirs. I tried my luck this year and was reminded that decorating cookies is not my forte. 

 Sadie thought each cookie needed a few inches of frosting and they were quite delicious.

Someone told the kids that they were all cousins and so they all just had a ball playing and thinking they had found their long lost cousins.

 

Love a fisheye lens with fishy faces. It just seemed fitting

That night we celebrated Christmas a little early and the kids plowed through opening presents in record time. 

 

My parents had just went on a trip to Israel and brought back souvenirs. Brian's present came in handy Christmas Eve when we read Luke 2 and were all dressed up.