Holiday Gayeties

As Christmas was approaching Kaden had a mishap on the family treadmill.  The details are sketchy but here's what we know...

He fell flat on his face as the belt was going faster and faster.

He got belt burns on various spots on his face and on his hands.

Ouchie!

What a way to have all of your Christmas pictures taken.  He was self-conscious about how he looked and was glad that school was out for 2 weeks so he didn't have to see his friends in this condition.  It was nasty looking... worse than what this picture even shows.

We decorated cookies with our cousins, the Brinkerhoffs and Erickson cute girls.

Don'tcha want to take a big bite into that pile of sugary color?

We spent a day making our fabulous gingerbread houses.

We had many projects going on every day.

Emmy's project. 

Waffle pretzels, warm a Christmas chocolate kiss on it and press a Christmas M & M in it.

Ady's project.  Painting a secret surprise.

Marianne made these super cute Santa's hats.  A keeper idea for sure.

Bugles, dipped in red chocolate with a marshmallow on top and powdered sugar on the bottom.

And of course watching lots of movies together. 
What is more magic at Christmas time than doing all of these fun things?