Hey Santa!

Thanks for visiting us at Great Grandma Donna's!

We are enjoying our presents!

The Night Before Christmas . . .

The Wilson house was full of

  cousins and their spouses with Grandma

 Hold on, guys!

 Wilson Siblings with Grandma

 Aunt Angie read stories before bedtime, Marin and Olivia are very intrigued.

 Connor and Daddy had visions of video games in their heads!

GOOD MORNING!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 Marin, working on her Christmas spirit.

 BUSTED:  These two went downstairs at 0705 to see if Santa came, then came upstairs to report about the loot!

Waiting upstairs until they get the ofiicial go-ahead to see their presents!

Visions of Sugar

It isn't Christmas without the baking and goody making right?  This week Olivia and I have done our fair share of baking and goody making.  We didn't cross everything off the list but came awfully close. 

We discovered new things to dip in almond bark and chocolate: marshmallows & Bugles! (note to self: next year fill the Bugles with PB and then dip them!)

Dipped pretzel rods are a favorite and an easy canvas for Olivia to decorate with sprinkles.

The dogs are getting a sugar buzz from all the extra sugar and sprinkles flying around!  I tried to teach Olivia to use her fingers, but she preferred her hand or the bottle!

Part II:  Cookie decorating!

I cheated this year, I took Pilsbury sugar dough and plopped them on a cookie sheet.  Only a few turned out symmetrical, as for the other cookies well, they ran into each other and are rectangled or squared but make great canvases for our frosting!

My elves helped decorate after I piped the frosting!  They are great cookie artists and are so oblivious to the fact that I cheated and didn't use my Grandma's sugar cookie recipe, yet another year! 

However, Connor does know the true taste of a sugar cookie, he mentioned it the other night . . . I said that I love a sugar cookie that is soft and fluffy, almost cakey and he replied, "yeah, like how Aunt Paula makes them!"  He's onto me!

Nevermind the shape of the cookie, look at those designs! All sorts of yumminess piled on them!

My favorite is this smooshed cookie and an abstract Rudolph!

I guess Scotcharoos, Snickerdoodles, and cake pops will have to wait for another day or maybe Valentine's Day!

A Roberts' Christmas

Believe . . .

in joy!

 in laughter . . .

 in sweet memories.

 in Christmas Magic!

in love!

 in wonder.

 in contentment.

 in hope.

in pure happiness!

 in cheer!

and

Dream of . . .

Peace!

It's Beginning to Look a lot like . . .

CHRISTMAS!

(with the exception of snow!)

 Last Monday, the kids were on the mend and wanted to go to the Holiday Lights; and so we did in our PJ's, a cup of popcorn, and the coolest thing for them was sitting in the front seat of the car with no seatbelt!!

 Last night, all the girls went to see a favorite production at the community playhouse.  Thanks Grandma for the fun experience!  Now we have some new songs to belt out around the house!

Some miscellaneous pics of our December. . . frozen yogurt, a broken Chicago Bears ornament (oops!), Olivia's fancy-schmancy shoes she's been wearing with EVERYTHING, and an unusual picture of snow (something we haven't seen around here a whole heck of a lot).

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree!

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