Cooking and Christmas

Today we woke up to lots of rain and ice. Church was cancelled and we stayed put. After spending the week watching episodes of Chopped and Cupcake Wars with Katie, baking seemed like the right thing to do on a cold, dreary day. It started out making cupcakes with Katie, but I thought it would be fun (and crazy) to do a baking project with each kid. So...cupcakes with Katie, Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars with Tyler, and Chocolate Chip and Sprinkle Cookies with James, then cupcake frosting and cornbread with Katie. At some point in that mess I threw some Enchilada Soup in the crockpot. It was fun. It was tiring. And I have a bunch of stuff to put in my freeze. And a sink full of dishes. But three kids were happy and filled with sprinkles and mommy-time so I can take care of the rest later.

Now, on with the rest of the Christmas pictures! In very random order!

 I think this was when he opened his Yoda Lego alarm clock. He was so excited!

 Baby Squatch liked his new learning pad

 The kids with Grandma!

 She is, after all, the most spectacular grandma EVER

 Have you ever tried to get three children to a)look at the camera b)at the same time and c)look like they are not dying/killing each other/constipated? Yeah, it's not easy.

 But the memories!

 Oh, the memories.

 We got to play games with Grandma which is always fun, and James and Katie have come to love Uno!!!

 We play it almost every night now. I love it!

 Back to Christmas morning and my randomly ordered pictures. This is for sure the Yoda alarm clock. He loves it.

And all three of my beans, unwrapping. I didn't take too many pictures because I was busy enjoying the moment. :)