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Christmas Cookies!!

Each year we try and do at least one kind of christmas cookie and this year we actually slaved away in the kitchen and made three different kinds. Making christmas cookies is NOT my idea of fun, nor do I really enjoy it as it gets so messy. Elijah and Caden however think it is so much fun and so we continue to do it each year. I think the hard part for me is watching flour get spilt all over the floor, sprinkles go flying everywhere, clothes covered in sugar, and fingers scrapping all the bowls and tongues cleaning off the utensils. Im a tidy person in my kitchen and I don't mind having my kids help here and there with dinners, but to let them have free roam of my kitchen is really hard for me to do. Like nick had to constantly remind me "that we don't do this to have cookies in our house and junk food lying around, we do this for the experience and memories with our kids". Its just so hard to remember that!! But he is absolutely right because if we didn't have kids, I sure wouldn't do it!! So here are some pictures for you all to enjoy of us working(and eating/licking) in the kitchen:)Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting. Yummy. We wanted to do the cutout cookies but accidently made the wrong cookie batter. Opps!!It is so finger licking good, huh boys????
Is the bowl cleaning enough yet?? I did finally take it away as they had licked it pretty clean!!White Chocolate covered pretzels are my favorite and so simple to do, and the boys loved to sprinkle red sugar on them.Nick picked doing Buckeye's this year. They turned out great and we might just have to do them next year as well:)