Christmas Challenge

This year I hosted our family's First Annual Christmas Cookie Challenge! I found giant cookie pans from Walmart for only $9. I used Betty Crocker's Sugar Cookie mix. Each batch only took 20 minutes to mix and bake! My husband collected candy toppings and we were off to our first annual challenge.

Each team had a premade cookie and were given 20 minutes to decorate! Each team scored the others, which made up 50% of the vote and then the Master Judge's score made up the other half.
The voting categories were: Creativity, Overall Appearance, Yummy Factor, and the Name.

My son Jace and my mother-in-law (his Gran Gran) & "Santa's Helper" came in 3rd.
My husband and my daughter Joie & "Rooster Cogburn" came in 2nd.
& The winners, my sister-in-law Tyese & her son & "Rae" came in 1st!

Hopefully it is a yearly tradition that will be bring on the Holiday cheer for many years to come!

Emmanuel's Dedication

I attended my friends Erin & Michael's baby dedication. Baby Emmanuel was dedicated to God, his parents, his godmother, and his grandparents along with his friends and family committed to raising him up in the ways of the Lord.

Family from all over attended. After wards, we continued the celebration at their neighborhood park. Plenty of good food to eat and fun activities for the children. Erin created adorable keepsake shirts for every child that attended. She used the scripture "Fearfully and wonderfully made" Psalms 139:14. My children wear theirs regularly!

Photographed by me!