I took a few days off after all the Christmas rush. I needed to re-energize! I had a little photo session with Madison and Catherine on Christmas Eve. Here are a few of the better pictures:

I love this one of me with the girls. Madison had chocolate face most of the day. As you know, there was no snow in Florida this year. So we got out the fake snow and played like there was...... The girls had a blast. Madison kept asking for more. After we played in the snow, I got out the fairy wings! Here are my sweet little fairies......

I did a "Star Book" class for select family and friends at Debbie's house. We had a great time, and all the books turned out beautiful. I didn't take any pictures, but I will get a picture of mine soon. I was able to finish up my shopping and pick Catherine up for another night of bonding. I had a great time with the girls last night. We sang Christmas songs, made Reindeer food, dipped pretzels in chocolate, and baked chocolate chip cookies. Sonny and the girls had fun tormenting each other and climbing all over him. They love to get grandpa!

Making reindeer food, they can't wait to sprinkle this out on the lawn to entice Santa's reindeer. Here they are making the chocolate chip cookies. They turned out so yummy! Santa will love them, if there are any left. This is what a bowl full of hand dipped pretzels and chocolate chip cookies look like after the kitchen is cleaned and the little ones have a bath!

Here is the food for Santa's magical reindeer.

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Here is a little K&Company scrapbook that I made for Debbie's birthday.

Celebrated Christmas with family on Saturday. We gathered at Dad's to share good food, gifts, and company with friends and family. Everything went very well. Dad was in good spirits and the food was great. Thank you Jeff and Laura for pulling it all together for us.

We picked Catherine up on Friday and returned her Sunday evening. We picked Madison up Sunday morning and we will return her on Christmas Eve. Her daycare is closed for the whole week.

Here is the other flip book that I finished this week.

Have a great day..... get the shopping finished.

Schools Out!!!!!! I intend to fully enjoy my two weeks off. Mattie's daycare will be closed next week, so I'll have her for about three days. We will find something to do, I'm sure.

I completed two flip books, a dozen Giant Cookies, and a small scrapbook over the last few days. Like I said "Late Nights". I finished four candy boxes this afternoon too!

The cookies I made last night were the Giant Chocolate Chip. I think these are my favorite of all the flavors.

Here is a picture of all the cookies completed.

Here are the last of the Christmas Card Exchange. All the cards are just beautiful, thank you for participating in my card exchange.

Tonight I got busy! I baked a batch of Giant Sugar Cookies. Once they were cool, I stamped 5" x 5" CD/DVD envelopes and made belly bands for them. They are so adorable and the cookies fit in them perfectly. These are such a simple Christmas gift.

Margi came over to stamp with me tonight. I finished the cookies, and made two double Snowman Soups. I did this by packaging the ingredients for the snowman soup in a cup. I put about ten mini-marshmallows in a small cellophane bag and tied it with a ribbon. Then I put two hot chocolate mixes, the marshmallows, two candy canes, and two Hershey Kisses in the cup. Then I packaged the cups in a large cellophane bag and tied it ribbon.

I hope you are enjoying the Christmas card exchange samples. They are great cards from great stampers. Here are a few more: