Getting in the Holiday Spirit

I am so excited the Holidays are here! Last year I was eating super duper healthy to get fit for the wedding, but this year with no wedding dress to fit in, I am so excited to make new things for holidays. The cold weather has made me turn into a baking and cooking machine (at least on the weekends). Two weeks ago I made a pumpkin pie cake (yummy!), and this weekend I wanted to make cookies. I invite Silvia (mother in law), Savannah (niece), and Jenika (cousin) over to make a batch of cookies. I had in mind making one type of cookie, but I should have known better once I invited the queen of sweets over (Silvia). She brought with her mixes for magic bars, brownies, three types of cookies, ice cream, and cotton candy flavored quick (don't ask)! It was so fun making batch after batch of junk food!



The girls even humored me and let me start playing Christmas music! I am so glad Jose gets almost as excited as me about Christmas. He doesn't mind Christmas music the first week of November (in fact he uploaded a million Christmas songs to my ipod). He even joined in a bit and made fun shaped sugar cookies.



Savannah and Jenika are second cousins and six years apart, but they get along so well! Jenika is the twins' older sister, and you can tell she is good at being a big sister. They were so goofy and fun to have around.



They got a little tired by the end. Aren't they cute?



In the end we made Brownies, Snickerdoodles, chocolate chip cookies, and sugar cookies. Somehow we never made the kind I had planned on making (oatmeal toffee cookies) or the kind Jose requested (peanut butter), so I guess we have to have another cookie making day. Fine with me!