Christmas Day at Gramma's

We went out to Gramma's on Christmas Day.

And opened more presents!  Hungry, Hungry Hippos...hurray!

I love my cousins.

And they just LOVE IT when I try and smooch on them!

They helped me with my games.

Mommy made these Noels for the ladies.

Daddy and I shared chocolate pie...the BEST!

And Poppy won the award for the most pie piled onto one little plate!

Christmas Morning

Look!  Santa ate his cookies and left a note!

He brought me an Easy Bake Oven!

And a Barbie Baker and Styling Head!

And he even knew I needed some new mechanical pencils for drawing.  Hmmm....Santa is pretty smart.

Baking red velvet cupcakes at 7 AM.

And putting the finishing touches on my lovely little cupcakes!

Christmas Eve

Gramma let me open a couple of Christmas Eve presents.  I love this Lego and friends set from Matt and Colleen!

New kitty named "Licorice" for my American Girl doll.

And best of all, I had ice cream after I put on my jammies!

Christmas Eve Church

This smile was all I could muster...

I'm Dreaming of a Chocolately Christmas

Visions of Sugarplums danced in my head...

Lefse with Poppy

On December 23rd, I made lefse with Poppy.

Poppy turns his round perfectly.

Poppy's an engineer.  Look at his side-by-side comparison of two lefse recipes.   We used the Thompson family recipe.

First you roll out the potato dough...

Then you let it cook on a griddle...

Then carefully flip it with your lefse turner.

Mommy helped too.  Years ago, she learned to make lefse with her Lutheran girlfriends when they were in high school.

Can you tell which one is mine???

Gingerbread House

I worked like an elf in Santa's workshop to make this gingerbread house today.

And then this big elf came and started eating it!