Decorating gingerbread cookies at Christmastime is a big tradition in my family. I can’t even remember a year when we didn’t do it! It’s something I’d like to continue with my own little family, so this weekend I made the dough and invited our brothers over to cut and sprinkle them!

Uncle Karl hadn’t seen Kaya for a little while, so he was extra excited for baby cuddles! Jeff might’ve been eating his cookies as he was making them…I never realized what a giant mess this whole process makes. I guess my mom always took care of it, so we never noticed when we were kids! Now I get all the fun of clean-up for myself.Somewhere along the way was a tray we forgot was in the oven. Burnt to a crisp! It really was alright though (besides the smell!) because we had waaay too many cookies as it was.
Kaya’s patiently awaiting her turn to decorate next year.
They’re not the most artistically-deocrated cookies we’ve made, but they still looked pretty cute……except for this creepy snowman!

7 days to go!