Getting Ready for Christmas!!

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we went to a tree farm near us and picked out our tree. We were so thankful we picked a warm day to do it, so we weren't freezing our little buns off!

Sydney thought Bear could be of some help too!

Putting the chain on the tree!

Mommy and Sydney in front of our tree after a lot of looking around!

This was the only picture we could get of the 3 of us in front of our tree because there was no one else around to recruit to take our picture. When you go close to closing time, that's what happens!

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Christmas Cookie baking time at the Spenglers. Every year we head to NJ to bake cookies with our dear friend Darlene! This year Syd was finally big enough to help! We made Hershey Kiss cookies, Cut Out cookies, Chocolate Chip Shortbread cookies and Bon Bons!

She loved painting the cookies. She was so quiet and intent the whole time she painted!!

Her works of art ready to go in the oven!

Aunt Rachel even got to join us this year. We loved having her there!

Darlene patiently rolling out the dough.

Time for Syd to pick out her favorite and have a little nibble! Definitely the big red one!

Darlene and Sydney hard at work!

Heidi even stopped by for a little while to help!

My dad stopped by too. He said he just wanted to see his grandaughter, but I think he wanted to do a little cookie sampling too!

Making sure Darlene has a taste of her snack.

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It's time to decorate our tree! Sydney made sure this corner of the tree had plenty of decorations on it!

She loved being able to help this year!

Syd and her daddy!

Mommy's little helper!

Sydney wanted to take a little sip of this mini milkshake before we hung it on the tree.

Our tree! If you look close enough, you'll notice Syd's favorite corner was the bottom left.

Merry Christmas!