Santi Huron: December 2008

Friday, December 26, 2008

Gingerbread Men

A little of this and a bang of that...

We thought it would be fun to make Christmas cookies for our neighbors, so we set out to make gingerbread men! After dividing the dough into four parts, they got to it! There was much flour flying and rolling pins banging.....banging?....it had to be explained that rolling pins roll....not bang. Titus (1) just wanted to be in on all the action, so we gave him a little flour to play with. When it was icing time, you had to keep a keen eye on those M&M's! Mom came in the kitchen to see all the mess and left laughing as she said her grandchildren will be the most artsy children, but her daughters will probably have a messy house. Of course, we laughed and said she was wrong....we would just do all the baking at the sister's house that was clean. =) The kitchen was a mess, but the boys had such fun. After seeing all the finger licking and wiping on the shirts, we decided we wouldn't burden our nice neighbors with such sweet contamination, so Olivia kindly made fresh, "clean" cookies for them the next day.

Enjoy the pictures above...

Family Christmas Pictures [behind the scenes]

Every year we take a family picture, and every year, we come home look at all the shots and mom laughs so hard she has tears coming down her face from all the funny faces everyone makes during the 200+ pictures that are taken. We don't necessarily look for a "perfect" family shot....simply one shot that everyone is looking at the camera. =) Of course, we have sister/brother shots, just the girls, just the boys...etc. This year, we chose the coldest day in Florida history to take our picture. =) Maybe we should try and do this from now on, because we only had to take 4 pictures! It either had something to do with the cold weather or the hot chocolate that was waiting at home...

Anyway, we didn't end up with such hilarious "behind the scenes" this year...there's always a first!