Steph's Birthday!

Steph's birthday was last Saturday, and her birthday request was to decorate cookies with her family.  As it turns out, it was an awesome idea and made for a super fun morning...good going, Steph! :)


Steph laying out her yummy gingerbread cookies

These three might have been a little excited!  I love that they all have several sugar containers...ready to decorate!

Cheese!

Somebody's excited to decorate cookies... :)

Steph, Melissa, and I frosted cookies while Katy, Sheila, and Greg helped the kids decorate (and Greg took pictures).

These trees were definitely the prettiest, in my opinion.

Now, especially given my last post about the princess cake, wouldn't you expect Nora and Elena to be fighting over the pink and purple sprinkles?  Instead, look who used the most pink:


The big M!

Meanwhile, Elena used up most of the yellow (can't see it in this picture, but it had very large sprinkling holes and she covered her plate),

and Nora used/ate most of the blue.  They just have to keep us guessing!

"Look at our hands!"

After decorating, Greg took the kids outside to run down the big hill.  Sheila's friend Farrah was coming with her boys and we wanted to keep some cookies for them to decorate!

Elena waiting for Nora to finally get down the hill

Here she is!

These three...there is never a dull moment with them!

Meanwhile, inside Annika was trying to clean the floor. :)

I know I might be biased since she's my niece and all, but...

isn't she one of the most beautiful babies ever?!?

Once all of the cookies were decorated, everyone gathered at the cabin for Steph's birthday lunch.  Dad and Mom had made Swedish meatballs at her request, and they were SOOO good!  Her dessert was a chocolate trifle, also yummy!

Here Steph is trying to keep Max from blowing out her candles!

And in this one, she's tickling him because he blew out all but one or two of them before she could do it!

As always, the birthday person gets plenty of 'help' unwrapping presents!

Happy birthday, Steph!  We had a great day celebrating with you!  Love you!