Christmas 2010

The holidays at our house were "snow" much fun this year. 

We had our annual holiday cookie open house the Saturday before Christmas.

I made these little mice cookies, among others!

Ike kept sneaking mice and taking them into Gabrielle's room to play with them! So cute!

 

 

 

 

 

A beautiful snow fell on Christmas Eve, making for the ideal Christmas morning!

Gabrielle made this super cute snowman. Check out his cheeks!

Christmas night Lisa, Brycen and Mitchel arrived. We had dinner and then opened presents. Then we made skillet brownies for dessert. This began a week of cooking and baking almost non-stop! Throughout their stay we made Crock-pot Southwest Chicken, Ham, Turkey and all the trimmings (including homemade rolls), Jared smoked chicken, brisket, and pork shoulder for pulled pork, we also made baked ziti and homemade French bread. Lisa even tried out her new waffle iron that she got for a Christmas gift. On one of the last days they were here, we made Brycen's birthday cake-- a little early--his birthday is January 8th. I'll do a separate post for his autographed guitar cake! 

On the day I was cooking the Turkey and making pies with Madison, Jared took Gabrielle, Brycen, Lisa and Mitchel out to enjoy the snow at Stephen's Lake Park sledding hills. The snow was beautiful and sparkly that day!

All bundled up!

The other days (and nights) were filled with lots of game playing (including Rook marathons!) movies and playing the Wii. I wish I would have got more pictures! We had lots of fun, food and family time! We loved it all! Thanks for coming, kids!