Cookie Night

This year at cookie night we had a little surprise to share with our families :) We were so excited to have everyone know... Neither of us are good at keeping secrets! I was thinking we would wait till Christmas when we got together with everyone. But because of my cyst I felt like my stomach was so large that I may as well get to surprise them instead of them figuring it out. So we volunteered to bring the already baked sugar cookies that we frost, so I cut out BABY JOHNS and hid them under the other cookies... We had two pans full of cookies so when we got to my cousins house I got out the pan that didn't have it in it. Chris wasn't there yet and I didn't want them to find it before he got there. Well it took longer than we thought to go through that first pan. Pretty soon my grandma was getting ready to leave soon so I made Chris come in and frost a few cookies to uncover the letters. They finally saw them and it was so fun! It is so nice to not have to try to keep it a secret anymore :)

Here we are with part of our cookie mess...
Rachel, Missy, Logan, Amanda, Ana, Me

At some point the boys caught on to our tradition and started their own. While we do cookies they set up their games. The last 2 years Chris has "had" to set up the projector and they play games all night. It works out well cause then they aren't trying to hurry us along and they enjoy the night just as much as we do.

I was so happy this year cause I was able to make it to my grandpa's grave for Christmas. Every year they light a candle at each headstone in the cemetery. It really is an awesome sight. And a great time to visit him during the holidays! We miss you grandpa, so so much...