Getting Ready for Christmas

Friday night, Cristy, Mark, and Nathan came to celebrate Christmas early with us.  The girls had a lot of fun smothering playing with Nathan.  The twins are always excited when they have someone to “boss” around.  They tried to dress him in a hat, tutu, and high heels but he wasn’t too excited about them.

Nathan opening his present first

Hey Buddy, your going a little too slow for us, let us help!

Nathan got a “pop-on pal” amusement park

Megan got a swimsuit and cover-up outfit for her American Girl dolls 

Annalyse opening Cinderella accessories

Cinderella all dressed up for the ball

 

Ariel ready for Prince Eric

 

Not too bad of a group picture, best one we have gotten in a while.

Who is ready to make gingerbread cookies?

We are! We are! We are!

Our outside view is just a little different today.

Decorating the cookies!

Megan enjoyed making clothes on the gingerbread “people”

Meredith’s way of decorating was to see how much frosting she could put on one cookie.

Annalyse did a EXCELLENT job of outlining each of the cookies, she outlined them and then put a line down the middle and also across the middle, on just about every cookie she did.

Mike adding some eyes

Megan’s materpiece

Uncle Bob making a Packer jersey

Meredith’s masterpiece

Annalyse trying out her creation

Megan taking a bite

I would have never thought in a million years that Meredith would take a bite of that cookie with SOOOO much frosting.

Our creations, they turned out pretty well!

Now, onto sugar cookies!

 

 

After the disappointing Packer loss (I told Mike he probably shouldn’t go into public for a couple of days), we headed out to brave the winter weather.  The weather sure changed from this morning, it was VERY windy outside, a little too much for Meredith’s liking.

Going for the first scoop ride of the season

 

Our snowman

Meredith taking shelter in the garage

Warming up with hot cocca and cookies!

Stay warm!