Tis the season

For baking and baking and baking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been running a regular holiday bakery the last couple of days. The kids "helped" with some chocolate covered pretzels. I think they really just loved making a huge mess but I guess that is what it is all about. Little One was a little sneak... everytime I turned around she was sneaking another "treatie" into her mouth.

We also worked on the annual Gingerbread House. Daddy stepped into Pa's shoes for this year as we are only seeing them for a couple of days and those will be quite filled up. The kids were actually really focused on it this year and were giving their dad instructions on how Pa does it. Pretty cute. It turned out really good.
This would be Miss A giving Daddy directions on how to do it.

Miss A was really into the decorating part of it.

Little One was back to stealing more "treaties" when she thought we were not looking

Can you say "gotcha!"

We also had our annual "Surprise! It is time to go see Christmas lights" evening. The kids get readygenerated a nice and naughty list that used all the neighborhood kids names. They also had a snow machine that Little One for bed and climb in and then we say surprise! no bedtime... get your blankets... hot chocolate and cookies are ready. Lets go! We went to the neighborhood of one of Mike's old co-workers this year and it was amazing! The whole block was lit up. One house had all their kids acting out the nativity. Another house had a computer program hooked up to their second story where the decoration actually and Miss A LOVED! It was great... they had a blast!

Miss A and Little One loved the snow machine.. you cannot see the snow but they are trying to catch flurries!