Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas cookie extravaganza!

Every year, the Lamis family gets together and makes hundreds of sugar cookies for Christmas. Each family supplies part of the dough and off to work we go! The kids enjoy decorating- or should I say that Bella and Brennan enjoy putting as many sprinkles on one cookie as humanly possible? Nothing says "yummy cookie" as the crunch of sprinkles! :) Julia is finally at the age where she gets the process and enjoys decorating. Each family then takes home a share of the cookies- we have about 75? Yummy! Mom can't stop sneaking in a few cookies here and there.











After the cookie decorating, we took Angie and Joe up on their offer to watch the kids overnight as our anniversary gift. Maybe they weren't expecting us to call in their offer so soon but we jumped on it! :) We went to dinner and finished all our shopping for the kids. Thanks guys! We loved our night out.

The girls had so much fun spending the night- Julia fell asleep first (like always) and the wonder twins (Bella and Brennan) stayed up WAY too late talking. The next morning, they each blamed each other when asked who was talking. We attempted to go to lunch together the next morning when I picked up the girls. Let's just say that lack of sleep and lots of sugar don't mix! Julia burst into tears and had a mini-fit when the server told us they don't carry chocolate milk and that was basically how the rest of our day went. Yikes! I guess it's all part of the fun!

2 comments:

Angie Giannotti said...

Can't say we didn't try :) I'm sure this was just because it was their first sleep over, maybe next time they'll be better!!

Suzanne said...

The cookie tradition sounds awesome. What a great idea. Wish we lived closer so we could do something like that too. Save some of those cookies for next week!

Too funny about Julia and the chocolate milk. The server probably wandered what she said. Hopefully your girls have rested well by now.