Cookies galore.....

TRADITION......we ALWAYS decorate Christmas cookies with the Landsverks....I think we've just missed 1 year in the last 6-7ish years?

Years ago, a far away friend gave me this recipe for frosting where you "finger paint" it onto the cookies. At the time, I think it was just Ellie and Silas decorating cookies...and now we've added Shae, Jayna, Ava and Colin (well, he EATS the cookies!). Years ago, we trained them well to NOT lick their fingers, just paint the cookies! It is a most fun way to decorate cookies!

Here are Silas and Shae hard at work on their masterpieces:

And then the Glynn girls concentrating as well...(and Ellie with red frosting teeth!)

Our dear friends David and DeAnn....and take note of the bottom 2 photos here--DeAnn is VERY artistic and she loves it when the kids have had enough--it's her turn! As you can see by the bottom right photo, she is very detailed in her decorating...

I love the cookie decorating process too...and this was the 1st year that the husbands joined in the fun. Andy surprised us all...another lefty who is VERY gifted in finger painting cookies! The bottom 2 photos are his prize decorated goodies!

This year, I added a craft idea that I had seen in one of Ellie's magazines to our afternoon--3D snowflakes. These might be some of the coolest things we've made out of paper! DeAnn got me started (because I hate to read directions!) and they left us with 2 beautiful HUGE snowflakes that are now hanging in our dining room windows! Note the bottom right photo--the lights from outside use the snowflakes to make a cool design on our ceiling!

Happy Winter.....and stay tuned....I have MANY photos/video to sort through from the girls' recent Christmas programs/concerts!