Christmas Treats

Christmas never feels like Christmas without an overdose of sugary goodness.  Since I'm working out and trying to get in shape, this year I promised myself that I wouldn't over do it.  So I just made cinnamon sugar cookies.  And then I thought I needed to balance that out with chocolate and made mint brownies.  And then fudge is easy, right?  So I made some.  But then I realized that I almost forgot to decorate gingerbread houses!  That wouldn't do.  Luckily I found a kit that made an entire gingerbread village, with five little houses (one for each family member).  The kids were really into this project.

And Steve completed our beautiful cookie village with his awesome marshmallow snowmen.  Notice the cute little hat he has on!

So I'm finally done with the baking... right?  No!  Then I received these awesome cookie molds from my neighbor that you can make cookies on a stick!  I just HAD to try them out, right?

And the kids got to decorate and eat their own "cookie on a stick".

Good thing I was finally done all my baking.  Right?  Right?  NO!  Because we still need to make a birthday cake for Jesus' birthday... something that we do every Christmas Eve!  I couldn't let Jesus down, right?  So we made a cake and I decorated it when the kids napped.  Now, some of you may remember that this year Garrett asked Santa for a "Shark Cake" for Christmas.  Steve and I were like "a shark cake"?  Seriously?  So we explained that Santa doesn't bring food... and instead I decided that Jesus would appreciate a shark cake for His birthday.  I mean, He MADE sharks didn't He?

Okay... that was the last of it.  Thankfully a lot of that baking was given away as gifts and at various functions.  Otherwise we'd really be in trouble...