Pre-Christmas Activities

The night before we celebrated Christmas with the kids (we had to do it the weekend before Christmas due to traveling on Christmas Day) Payten and I made Santa Clause some really yummy cookies. Santa didn't get very many of them though because Mommy and Payten really like the cookie dough. Neither one of us can keep our hands out of the bowl. :) We had fun Mommy/Daugther time! My little Christmas countdown calender in the background says it all......We are truly blessed! Look at that little sweet face! She is my precious baby girl. :) And I know exactly what she is thinking in this picture......Mom, please quit taking these stupid pictures so I can hurry up and eat my delicious cookie dough. haha We also made a Gingerbread House. Matt started it and then Payten and I finished it. We had a few minor problems along the way......I accidentally cracked the roof down the middle so it kept caving in. I finally got it to stick to the icing and I thought Payten did a pretty good job decorating it. :) The candy cane represents two things: #1The red part stands for the blood that Jesus shed on the cross for us and #2 The white part represents that we are washed white as snow when we ask Jesus into our hearts. So we always do the candy canes upside down to make a J. (J is for Jesus)