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Christmas Cookies Galore

We’re making progress on our holiday to-do lists. This past Friday I mailed out all of our Christmas cards, and spent 4.5 hours wrapping gifts. Ugh! I had the day off of work, so it was best just to power through and get it all done while I was the only one at home. There has already been much rearranging of the presents under the tree as the kids are taking stock of all of the gifts. And I have just two gifts left to buy...easy peasy!

I braved the lines at the post office yesterday to mail out the gifts to our family member who aren’t local to us. No peeking until December 25! And yesterday afternoon, Grandma Karen came over to help us make all of our Christmas goodies for the season. We now have frosted sugar cookies, fudge, Kris Kringle red and green cookies to snack on, and today, we’ll be making more dipped pretzels.

 Ava, G, and Grandma Karen managed the sugar cookie portion, while I focused on making the fudge (I managed to drop the candy thermometer in the fudge mixture while it was boiling so that was a fun clean up...)
 




It's a reindeer!


We also squeaked in a visit with Santa this week, too. Ava was very sweet and asked Santa to bring treats for Lucky, a Barbie Dreamhouse (ha), a cell phone (haha!), and some Shopkins for her (that’s most likely to happen.) G has been asking for another train set, so we’ll see what ends up in the stockings on Christmas morning!


Waiting very patiently for our table at the restaurant, after we had seen Santa!


We have G’s holiday concert this Tuesday, and he shared that they will be singing a song from Frozen, Rudolph, some song I’ve never heard of, and the fourth one is a mystery...lol. I ask him what the fourth song is and I get a blank stare. Sooooo, we’ll see how THAT goes on Tuesday! It should be super cute. He’s been looking forward to this concert for a while!

Next weekend, we have a few parties we were invited to, but we’ve narrowed it down to the less formal one. Should be fun to catch up with people we haven’t seen in a while! Plus, we can bring the kids, so it’ll be a fun night for us all.

My favorite holiday achievement, however, is finally getting a timer for those dang outdoor Christmas lights. I no longer have to go out in the cold to unplug them before bed. Thank the Lord for modern technology. It even has a remote I can use to turn them on or off, if I want to deviate from the timer function. Amazing! Not sure why I waited so long to get one of these...lol.

We need to figure out a time to drive around and look at the light displays and then...we just need to wait for the big day to arrive! This is a fun year, as G is really engaged in the holiday activities. They are thoroughly enjoying looking for George (our elf) each morning. G’s squeal of laughter when he finds him everyday just bring joy to my heart. I love seeing Christmas through the eyes of a young child. It’s a magical time!

Scott built Ava a puppet theater, so we were all treated to a puppet show last Sunday. Love the lighting!


Scott had fun while he was giving G a bath. All I heard was, "Dad, you look like Santa!"


This is our future...eye rolls and sighs.


Happy Sunday Funday to all!

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