Brrrrr

Okay....seriously...BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! It is beyond COLD outside right now!! Saturday started the day at 30 outside, but quickly went below zero and it has yet to get above zero again! COLD!! So, needless to say, we stayed inside the house A LOT this weekend!! What did we do!??! Lots of fun stuff...decorating more of the house / windows, the kids got their own Christmas trees up in their rooms, pictures drawn for Santa, lots of games were played, books/magazines looked at, and baking, baking and more baking!! I made the following on Saturday and Sunday : 12 small loaves of pumpkin bread, peanut butter cups, ritz/peanut butter sandwiches, snickerdoodles, chocolate crinkle cookies, A LOT of cut-out cookies and even frosted them too!! The only thing left is to make the molasses cookies and get all this OUT OF THE HOUSE! :) Anyone want some?!??

Here are the kids busy making the cookies....

The kids enjoyed decorating the cutout cookies the most...as you can see in the pictures below. Notice Ryan. Yes, it is anywhere from -10 to -20 outside and he is "hot" and spent the afternoon in pants only...no shirt...no socks. He didn't get that from me! :)

Here is Ryan showing off one of our cookies...the "Christmas Trout". Yes, we have fish cookies...and LOTS of them thanks to Hailey. But, this year we don't have the "Christmas Moose" or the "Christmas Bear." I had the cookie cutters out, but then we forgot about them. :) And the second picture is of Ryan's old rainbow trout. There are so many layers of frosting on that one little fish! It took him 1/2 hour for one fish...and enough frosting for 10 cookies. YUM!

Here is Hailey, hard at work. She is quite the decorator too! She told me she wanted to do it ALL NIGHT LONG...but thankfully we didn't have to do that!! I wasn't ready to be in the kitchen that long :) Her cookies you actually want to save and look at :)

Here is a picture of most of the cookies that we did...YUMMY!! Although it was FREEZING outside, it was nice to stay inside and get the baking done and have help from the kids too!