The tradition lives on.....

The annual Christmas baking day just keeps getting better!  My boys used to do the skedaddle and run for their lives when this event rolled around and landed on the calendar somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  But they have come full circle and realized that we might be having more fun in the kitchen than they were having on the golf course or in the bar!  Ha.

Here's Andy supervising the sugaring of an old favorite recipe.  Actually, he wasn't supervising anything because the kids were doing things their own way and he was just standing there.



Brady and Ada were getting the job done right -



Well, the day isn't ALL about baking......



Ben and Brady bonded over a super huge batch of Gingerbread cut-outs



You can never have too many sprinkles, right Drew???



Here are some key members of the baking team.  The beautiful girl on the right was our newbie.  Few ever return. 



Time out to snuggle in for a video.  I love the angle of the picture in the background:)



Jude provided a little harmonica music to see if it would help the cookies bake faster



Hey.  Remember the "Christmas Story"???   Drew was dressed for the 15-degree weather, but I hoped he wouldn't fall down because he would never be able to get up. 


All together we kicked off the 2013 holidays by putting a little Bailey's in our coffee and then destroying the kitchen, sending the electrical meter into the o-zone, laughing our heads off with the children, and keeping a valued tradition alive.  It was agreed this was the best baking day ever.