Making Cookies

Is Christmas complete without making and decorating sugar cookies? This was Kate's first attempt at decorating them, it was practically mine. It's been a long time since I've done this. As you'll notice from the video I only had one shape cookie cutter. I bought the mix and used store bought icing, so I took a lot of short cuts in this project. It was fun and of course very entertaining for us to watch Kate totally into the whole thing. I'm sure she went to bed with a tummy ache with all the finger licking and m&m snitching she did.

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Our finished cookies, can you even tell which ones I did and which ones she did?

Here she is showing off one the cookies she decorated, she's already licked off all the decorations, I don't think she even ate the cookie part

Picking out our Tree

For the last few years we've gone to Christmas tree farms to cut our Christmas trees. This year I wanted to go down the street to Home Depot when Brock insisted that we go cut our own tree. I think it makes him feel manly to cut down a tree, but he says it because the tree lasts longer because it's fresher. I know he's right, I haven't had to vacuum up any needles yet and it's been almost 3 weeks.

Daddy and Kate on the hunt for the perfect tree

we found the tree!

Video of Brock cutting down the tree

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Here's a little video of her looking at the tree once we got it all set up and put lights on. We did this while she was napping so that we could WOW her once she got up. I was hoping for more of a reaction but she still seemed to enjoy it. She loved helping us decorate the tree with ornaments and she is constantly rearranging them still.

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A Kate and Daddy tradition

Brock's favorite food is steak, in fact it's been his little tradition that every Saturday he grill up a juicy steak for lunch. Well Kate has become quite a little steak eater herself, it's cute to watch Kate and the dog beg him for bites. I love it because I don't have to make lunch for either one of them on Saturdays. I've actually been known to on occasion beg for a bite myself or even ask for him to grill me up one too. Here's a little video footage. Normally I don't allow Kate to be on the kitchen table like this, but here it is late at night, they were both hungry, I was tired, so I just let them do their thing.

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