One slow Sunday afternoon between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we headed over to Aunt J's house to bake Christmas cookies. I helped with the dough the night before and putting the first few batches on the cookie sheets. But I left M to frost them herself. The recipe was G's recipe but M and Aunt J added lemon frosting to them and decided they would be really good with lemon flavoring in the dough. So the next batch Aunt J made had lemon flavoring and lemon frosting in the sugar cookies.
While M finished frosting, C and I found some games to play upstairs.
There was excitement in the kitchen, when K and T saw a mouse come out from under the stove. The mouse had relatives that had been caught in the pantry in the week prior, but somehow this mouse escaped to live another week. While Uncle L and T tried to trap the mouse, Aunt J made herself comfortable out of reach!
The first Sunday of Advent, I got to be the candlelighter at church. It was a huge responsibility to carry the lit candle all the way down the aisle.
Helping Pastor L light the Advent wreath.
C got to carry the unlit candle back at the end of the lighting.
The beautiful downtown Loveland Christmas lights on the way to gymnastics. M thinks it was the first time she had actually ever been downtown Loveland during the Christmas season.
For the Christmas program at church, M had the two littlest angels.
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