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Saturday (inspite of the impending snow storm) my parents came down to celebrate another early Christmas with us.  We exchaged a few gifts, had fun eating pizza, and decorated Christmas cookies.  Oh, the Christmas cookies!!! Those stuipd things! Growing up every year we would make sugar cookies and decorate them with my dad. My mom always HATED doing them. I'm beginning to understand why!

We made the cookies last Thursday. That in itself was an adventure. Alex is now at the age where he wants to help.  But he's not so helpful!  He had fun playing with a bowl of oats.  Will started helping me but began to have more fun playing with Alex. I took advantage of that to get them mixed up.  Then we let the dough chill all afternoon.  (This picture was supposed to be showing the messy faces from licking the beaters.

That evening we rolled them out, cut and baked them. We started with Alex awake and that was really difficult, so he got put to bed and then it was a nice time with Will.  We were going to ice them Friday but we had our adventure at Conner Prairie instead. So we waited for Grandpa to help us. Then we got to enjoy a few!

The boys enjoyed the gifts they got–one thing they each got was pair of Monster trucks and those have been THE toy to play with right now.  It's been nice to have a few new toys, made missing church and preschool the next few days a bit easier.  Maybe this spreading Christmas out over a moth is a good thing!  I'll put up a picture of them in their pjs soon Mom!