sweet stuff

Saturday was our annual Candy Day

but I haven't been able to blog about it yet

because I'm still in a sugar coma.

I ate 8 sugar cookies yesterday.......

We all came with our cookies and candies ready to share,

made a few extra things, had soup and bread for lunch and

then decorated sugar cookies.

Mom and Nicole baking away...

Hailey and her friend Tori

Summer and Ryan working on the soup.

Ryan loved helping Aunt Summer cut the vegetables up with a butter knife.

See his lovely assortment in the measuring cup?

We decorated and decorated and decorated...

The kids all loved the sprinkles, frosting and icing (maybe a little too much.)

This is Ryan's cookie that he made for Santa (lucky guy)!

While Heath, Jim and Tucker went out Christmas shopping for us girls,

my dad and brother helped down at the church and then showed up before lunch.

After playing with the boys and getting them all loud and crazy, they decided it was time to take a nap.

Us girls didn't get that privilege though,

we sorted, packed, delivered and cleaned instead.

Then we all loaded up and headed to the movies.

It has been many many years since we have all been at the movies together

(and really we weren't all there because we were still missing Brooke).

We watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

which everyone enjoyed.

Then if that wasn't enough we all loaded up again and headed to Famous Daves

for dinner, which everyone really enjoyed.....oh so yummy.

By the time we were done there it was nine o'clock and we were all exhausted!

We all loved this day!