Cute Snowman Cookies

Although we have absolutely NO snow on the ground here this December (which is highly unusual!), I decided to make snowman cookies.

Here's a quick tutorial for icing the snowman cookies.  Start by outlining then filling the hat (I used black).  Then outline the snowman with white.  When you fill the snowman with white, use black icing to drop dots for the eyes and buttons (before the white icing dries).  Then you get nice, flat dots.  After that has all dried, add your embellishments.  I did a simple carrot nose on some, and a blue scarf on others.

Hope you enjoy these!  And may all your Christmases be white.

That Crazy Elf - part 2

Our Elf on the Shelf *usually* remembered to do something silly each night.  Here's where we found him on the days leading up to Christmas.

 

 

On the ceiling fan

Having a spa day in the shower

Swinging on the tree on a SPI-belt (Spencer's insulin pump pack)

In the nut bowl with a sign that says "I'm nuts!"

Packing Spencer's lunch box with an onion, olives, bouillon, and spicy sauce

Roasting a mini marshmallow on the mantle

Riding Toothless the dragon outside

 

 

Then on Christmas Eve, he was sitting by our nativity set reading the account of Jesus' birth from Luke 2.

 

The Elf is fun, but the reason we celebrate Christmas is to remember Christ's birth.  You may notice there's no baby Jesus in the manger in the above photo.  That's because he's wrapped in a gift box.  The first present our kids open on Christmas morning is the one containing the baby Jesus figurine.  We like to take a moment to remember that He's the best gift of all.

 

(To see what else the Elf has been up to this year, click here.)

That Crazy Elf

 

Here is what our Elf has been up to so far this year.

 

Watching his favorite movie

Decorating the antlers to look like a reindeer

Hiding in a glass in the cupboard

Riding the chicken on top the kitchen cupboards

Playing with baby cousin's toys

Sleeping in the Kleenex box in the bathroom

Trying to look like Santa Claus

 

What has your elf been doing?

 

(To see what else our Elf has done this year, click here.)