Cookies for Santa

Our Christmas Eve tradition is attending the Family Service at the Presbyterian church where the children act out the story. This year Gracie got her wish to be a Christmas Angel. Unfortunately this also means she has outgrown the costumed portion of the story. They only use pre-k kids through first graders. Taylor dressed as a Shepard right before they ran down the aisle to be a part of the story.

Then we come home to a dinner made by me for the whole family. This years was a menu of cheese and crackers, fruit salsa and crackers, and chips and salsa followed by baked potato soup. Yummy! After dinner we bake cookies and decorate them for Santa. I cheated and bought the nestle tollhouse precut christmas shaped cookies. The best part is the decorating anyway.

Each kid got their own plastic knife, white icing and sprinkles of red or green or mulitcolored. There was a package of red icing included in the kit to be shared. Grace being not one to like getting dirty was dainty except she kept licking her knife, sorry Santa for the extra germs.

Telling everyone how to do it.

Taylor enjoyed icing the cookies but loved the sprinkles, I am still getting sprinkle up off the floor almost two weeks later.

Yummy!

Serious business


Say Cheese Aunt Anna

Then came Lily. She had a little practice at her class party, but she really got into it this time. She had icing everywhere, including the front of her dress that she used as a napkin. Grandma tried to keep her under control as I took pictures.

give me those sprinkles lady

"there"

Heavenly!

And then it was off to bed to sleep so the big man in red could enjoy his cookies that were left over after the snacking decoraters were finished. They must have been good, he only left crumbs.