3rd Annual Christmas Cookie Party!

Everywhere you looked there was SUGAR!!

And so began the baking process...

Brad created a Monster Truck cookie for Braydon!  The letters are Emily and Megan's "inside joke" Cookies because noone knew what they meant.  

 My pals (and helpers) in the kitchen, Rebecca and Denice!

John Tice joined in on the baking by helping out with the Chocolate Covered Deer Scat.  (Just kidding-they are Oreo Truffles)

What would a Christmas cookie baking party be without putting frosting on our noses? 

...and finding flour fingerprints on our clothes?

Displaying our creations! 

This is Braydon's plate of cookies.  Yes, there are cookies underneath all that frosting!

Then the SUGAR kicked in and Sam started getting wild.

 

Finally, it was time to clean up and I had to grab the camera for this photo because Brad and I didn't know that Joe knew how to use a broom!  

Sam Rocks! at her school concert

Samantha's 4th and 5th graders put on an adorable concert called "ROCK!"  She played a caveman which is why she is in the costume.  She was so animated I  couldn't stop taking pictures of her.  Here she is in all her many moods

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And so the Christmas season begins...

Our first event-Santa's Parade of Lights in downtown Denver.  Only able to get one photo of us with our new video camera that is obviously not designed to take the greatest photos.  But still-we caught us in the moment.  A great evening!