Christmas Spirit

We have spent the last week doing all sorts of Christmas activities, including the last of our shopping and going to look at Christmas lights downtown in the middle of a major snowstorm! I think the hot chocolate stop was the highlight over the Christmas lights. At any rate, we're really getting into the spirit and Isabelle is super excited for Santa! I don't think Mark knows what's going on either way, but he sure has fun trying to join in on all our activities.

Isabelle did a great job making Christmas cookies this year. Making the dough...

 Kneading the dough....

 Rolling the dough and Mark getting in on the action.

Cutting the cookie shapes....

 A whole lot of frosting and whole lot of sprinkles = the best cookies...

 And finally! Eating them!! Thanks, Sierra, for cleaning up the gazillion sprinkles that landed on the floor.

Isabelle and Mark also got to open an early Christmas present from Grammy and Pepe since they will be in Portland with Robin, Guy, and Phoebe. Isabelle got a dress up basket which pretty much was the best thing in the entire world. We spend, oh, about all day long playing dress up now. Mark also enjoys his new shoes which he likes to try to pull off and chew on (two more teeth are appearing!) I figured we don't really need another picture of Mark chewing on his personal items, but here are some pictures of what Belle refers to as "Princess Belle", "Getting Married Belle," and "Spider Girl Belle."

 We also finally finished our giant Santa.

And finally, two kids ready for Santa (well, not so sure about Mark).

Merry Christmas!