I love this time of year! We've been busy getting in the holiday spirit. First, we decorated the Christmas tree as a family. Without my asking, Peter got in and put the lights on the tree. I told him how much I appreciated that because I really dislike that task AND I didn't even have to ask him! We then decorated the tree as a family. We're getting quite the ornament collection. We have so many that I actually ended up packing some back in the storage container because we were running out of room! It's time to look at getting another tree for the basement living room area so we can use all our ornaments to decorate.
This years individual and family ornaments
This isn't even ALL the ornaments!
Our Christmas Angel has been replaced with the Mario Star. Peter printed it off on his printer. We've gotten lots of compliments on it, and friends have actually requested Peter to make them one for their trees!
Madeleine has been anxious to help us decorate (Mel and James are actually looking at moving a few blocks from us, so they're postponing their own decorating). Here she is being Peter's helper with the lights.
I've been keeping busy wrapping up all the Christmas gifts. This is actually round two. As we purchase more gifts, I immediately wrap. I don't want to take any chances of anyone in the house accidentally finding a gift.
I've also been busy baking! There are so many cute holiday treats that I find on Pinterest. Pics are as follows:
1) Peppermint Bundt Cake (new recipe; definitely a hit!)
2) Elf-size Cookies (got the idea from the Elf on the Shelf. Boys thought it was cute)
3) Classic Sugar Cookies
4) Melting Snowman Cookies
4) Snow Globe Cookies (Peter printed me the cookie cutter!)
Kristjan also got in one evening to decorate a few cookies of his own. He asked me to show him how to use my decorating tools. He did pretty good on his first try.
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