It's beginning to smell a lot like....Christmas!

Bye, Bye, Thankgiving...

These cute little turkeys are from one of Giada's recipes.  They were so fun! 

Hello, Christmas!

 After we've cut down our tree, then we enter into the season of sharing gifts with friends and baking, baking, baking!  Reese's system does not agree with icing, so we tried "icing" the cookies with melted chocolate this year.

The boys colored our Advent Calendar (and put the treats inside)!

More baking...(Rachel, Julia, and Kelly Marie...do you see your Christmas cards on our pantry door?)

After the dough chilled overnight, we rolled it out the next morning (EA...check out your card!)

Picking out their shapes!

After they baked (and Eli ate almost all of them)...we let them cool, and then it was time to try decorating...we used another icing to see how it would agree with little man's system!

We've got a gingerbread house to complete later this week!  EA, if you are reading, I really wish that you lived down the street (and not 14 hours away) so that our kids could get together and the Fosters and Huffmans could have a gingerbread housemaking competition...doesn't that sound awesome?  Somehow I think Eli and Andy would get out of it...and Jack and my boys would be jumping off furniture...while you, EG, and I made both houses...does that sound about right?  

We hope that all of your homes are filled with good-smelling Christmas treats, and if anybody wants to invite us over to bake cookies, cupcakes, or chocolate-covered peppermint crushed pretzels...we will take you up on it (assuming that we are healthy).  Merry Christmas!