Making Christmas!

(Catch that movie line? I'll reveal it at the bottom if you didn't.)

Making Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve is a family tradition and this year was no exception. I made the dough in the morning and let it chill for a couple of hours, then baked the cookies in the afternoon. When dinner was over, out came the icing and nonpareils.

Everyone got a plate with an assortment of shaped sugar cookies. I decorated a few, but then my role became that of moving decorated cookies to the waxed paper sheets and mixing up more icing.

The whole family worked together.

After their gingerbread house-making competition last night, there was some friendly trash talking going on between Lisa and Sarah with the cookie decorating, too!

(Those elf pictures of Lisa and me on the fridge are from the Hershey holiday party. After the party in early December, the pictures of all the staff as elves were hung around the office for the kiddos to enjoy.)

You can tell by looking at his face that JC is working hard. (That's Sarah's arm - she and Trin got matching PJs from the pajama elf; JC and Todd's matched, too!)

Some of the final product. Pretty AND yummy!

(The movie line is from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.)