Christmas Cookies

This was the first year that we did Christmas cookies together as a family. It was so much fun we will start making it a Christmas tradition. Not only was the cookie decorating fun, the cookies were also very delicious!!
Nora's decorating skills were very impressive
Gretchen tried very hard, but decided that eating them would be much more fun!


Even Matt got in on the fun

One of Nora's creations
The final products

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