Tradition!

When I was growing up we had an annual Christmas tradition where we made sugar cookies. All of us kids looked forward to that every year. What isn't fun about cutting out cookies, baking them, decorating them, and then eating the fruits of your labor?

Last year I started that tradition in my own home, only instead of sugar cookies, I have been making gingerbread cookies. This year Baby Bean is old enough to help out a bit more and with much less assistance from mama. I could not resist sharing some of the great pictures I got from today. This little girl is just so amazingly cute, especially when making cookies and "helping clean the kitchen."

There are also some super cute photos of her playing in the tubes her daddy bought for the playground he is going to build her next summer.

I don't know how many cookies we made, but there were probably 4 dozen gingerbread cookies, and 2.5 dozen chocolate chip cookies. Pretty much all of them will go to work with me tomorrow as my Christmas gift to my coworkers who LOVE my cookies, and have been looking forward to them since last year.

Without further ado, I give you some of the cutest pictures you will lay eyes on this Christmas!