Christmas eve was such a special and fun day! It was by far the most eventful Christmas eve we have had in a while! I am splitting Christmas eve into two posts, one for the daytime activities, and one for the evening. Basically I'm going to be blogging about all things Christmas for the next week or so! Get excited ;-) I just want to remember all of the small, fun, details and writing lots of little posts is the way to do that.
Christmas eve morning we woke up and got the house ready for a little play date. Our friends Sonja and Tylar were coming over to play and bake Christmas cookies!
Emma Claire was so excited to have a friend coming over to play she couldn't stay off the furniture! ha!
Precious baby. She stood at the door and waited for Tylar for almost 10 minutes! And she held onto a bottle of sprinkles the entire time. Bless her heart.
A family tradition. I HAVE to watch It's a Wonderful Life while making Christmas cookies!
HA these two pictures Crack. Me. Up. Such goofy girls!!! They were SO good about playing together! Sonja and I actually baked cookies for an hour while these sweet girls played. Christmas miracle!
They both got a little fussy at one point but Daddy came and saved the day! They loved when he picked them both up!
Our fun cookies! We had such a blast baking. We also discovered I don't own a rolling pin. Shocker, I know! So hubby sawed off a piece of PVC pipe for us to use and it worked great!
Baking girls! Excuse the messy hair/jammies look we've all got going on! We had a very low-key morning and no one got gussied up!!! But we sure did have a blast together!
And the best part of the day...SNOW! That's right, we had a white Christmas Eve! It was so pretty to watch out the window!
After Sonja and Tylar left I put EC down for a nap and did a little cookie decorating! I found a new frosting recipe that I LOVE and will for sure be posting soon! It's a keeper!
While I decorated cookies I watched White Christmas. The perfect movie for a snowy afternoon.
The finished cookies. I just love the "look" of my new icing. It hardens just enough but is still soft when you bite into it. Perfection.
Up next...Christmas Eve evening! Baby girl and I went to our Christmas Eve service at church and then to a very good friend's house to celebrate the birth of our Savior! It was a wonderful night and we are just So blessed.
3 comments:
so fun! I have a lot of posts coming up too...I feel like I don't have the time to write them though :/
Love the cookies! And the last pic of you and EC is adorable! Katie and I have to do lots of holidays and activities with out daddy too, due to his job! :(
You are so great about still celebrating and doing stuff on your own. That must be especially hard with out family there. EC will really appreciate that. You are such a good mommy!
Oh my gosh, EC's jammies are so adorable!!!! She is going to be my inspiration for if we have a little girl when that time comes. :)
And I love White Christmas!
Post a Comment