This year, we waited to make Christmas cookies until Christmas Eve; not necessarily because that was the plan but it was the best day when all of the kids were home together (and Sam wasn't working).
Strategically placing his cookie cutters to maximize the amount of cookies that he could get from his sugar cookie dough:
I am pretty sure that Sophia makes at least one Santa cookie every year ... full of details and design.
Likewise, I am sure that Sam takes one of our 'elf' cookie cutters and turns it upside down to make a least one reindeer.
Another Christmas tradition in the books.
Later that night, the Jimmy was in charge of picking out a few of the freshly-decorated cookies for Santa's plate. I can't be 100% sure, but I think that he really enjoyed them ;)
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One day, Christmas Catherine showed up with gingerbread houses for each of the kids to work on.
It was a nice afternoon activity for everyone to work on at the dining room table on their own individual trays.
These blue trays have been through a lot over the years and are still going strong!
Jack prefers to carefully engineer his.
Steve jumped in to help Jimmy because, Lord knows, I am not very good at constructing gingerbread houses. I prefer to buy the ones that are already assembled and then use my skills for decorating.
Fully put together and ready to decorate.
In process. By the way, it looks like Christmas Catherine may have lost her balance in the middle of the table during the activity.
Colorful gum drops are a must. Always.
Letting her creative genius work!
Complete and ready to head to her job at the local winery ...
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