Celebrating

It's Christmas Eve, and as we're gearing up to celebrate Jesus' birthday and open lots of gifts, I thought it would be a good time to update our family blog. On Thanksgiving our elf, Luke, returned to help Santa keep an eye on the kids' behavior. In the first picture he's wearing a party hat - he returned from the North Pole with it just in time for Jacob & Cole's 4th birthday party.

Jacob & Cole each requested very specific birthday cakes, which meant mommy had to bake (and I am NOT a baker or cake decorator!).

These next few are from Jacob & Cole's preschool Christmas program. We were a little nervous they would get stage fright, but they sang their little hearts out the entire time. We're so proud!

This year we tried something new for decorating cookies. We had the kids help paint them with a mixture of egg whites & food coloring. They LOVED it & it was so much less messy (and more sanitary) than having them help with icing.
They did pitch in & help decorate their own "person cookie" with icing last night. Can you guess why we only want them to use icing for their own cookies & not the ones we leave out for Santa?






Here are Cole & Jacob singing one of the songs from their Christmas program.