Bounce Houses & Cookies

Today was a BUSY day. It is nearly 11pm and this is the first time I have really stopped to relax (and even now I am blogging!). I woke up before Lily who slept in until 8:15 and got ready to go meet our friends for a play date at Boomerangs at 9am. Once Lily woke up, I got her dressed and made her breakfast to eat in the car and we were off to meet Kathleen & Avery, Meridith & Taylor & Paisley and Erin & Noble. Lily had so much fun playing and bouncing with her friends from Gymboree and surprisingly it wasn't crowded at all. In fact the first hour we were there we had the whole place to ourselves. After the kids were all bounced out Lily and I went to my Mom's house so I could clean and Lily could visit with Grandma. My mom has been sick for over a week now so it has been awhile since we've seen her. Then we came home and I immediately got Lily down for a nap. While she was napping I worked for 2 and a half hours at my Internet job. Once she woke up we started baking cookies for Christmas. I am in charge of dessert for dinner at my Mom's tomorrow, so I wanted to make an assortment of Christmas cookies. Since there is only 5 of us I figured I'd make extra and drop some off with friends tomorrow. I got the bright idea to make sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, snow balls and rice krispies treats. All in all not that much, but it took me 4 and a half hours straight of baking. I didn't stop once and the oven was never empty. I am SO tired. My back and feet are killing me and the kitchen is a disaster. But I have TONS of cookies. We'll be enjoying Christmas cookies for days. :) Then it was bath and bed time. Chip is currently wrapping my gifts, so I figured it was a good time to sneak in my blog post for today. I can't wait for tomorrow!!

Lily and Avery having fun at the top of the big slide.
Action Shot!

Taylor and Lily

Lily and Taylor climbed this whole course together and were so proud of themselves that they gave each other high fives at the end. It was SO cute.

I was pretty proud of her too.

Lily, Noble, Taylor, Paisley and Avery

Lily helped me make the Snow Ball cookies by pouring in all the ingredients.

Then I let her sprinkle all the sugar cookies. I was very relax and having fun at the beginning of the four + hours. By the end I was a little less fun, so it was good that we did the sugar cookies second. :)

She really was a huge help. She put sprinkles on all the sugar cookies while I rolled the snow balls in powdered sugar. Some cookies have a whole jar of sprinkles on one cookie and some cookies only have 5 sprinkles, but they are all special since Lily made them!