Christmas Cookies with Cousins

 This is primarily a photos only post. My family did a "Make Christmas Cookies with the Cousins" again this year, and these are the photos. There were 15 cousins in attendance, and 11 adults. Enjoy!

Auntie Juls and Avery got the cookie making party started!

Morgan chose the chocolate dough to start.

Aunt Katelyn helping Sam to show his Christmas cookie cheer!

Rachel assisting Carter in decorating his cookies before baking.

Silas trying to acclimate to all the cookie excitement.

Ginny contemplating cookie-cutter placement with Sylvia.

Charity

Only about half of Sam's cookie dough actually made it into the oven....

Silas finally joined in the cookie making fun!

Gail was the keeper of the ovens, and occasionally came out to ask whose tray of cookies had just finished baking.

Sylvia using up every last bit of her vanilla dough.

When Sally's kids arrived, cousin buddies stuck together like glue! This is Marie and Susannah.

Rachel Anne and Sylvia with Avery on the side.

A full view of the cookie cutting-out party!

Myself, Little Pumpkin, and Hannah with Paul walking by in the background.

Mom was the faithful dishwasher the entire evening!

Carter delivering his tray of cookies to Aunt Gail for baking.

Catherine, the youngest cousin, supervising from a distance.

Avery was the longest-committed cookie maker aside from the adults. She happily cut-out and decorated lots of cookies!

Sam cutting out cookies and eating more dough!

Sally enjoying the festivities.

Marie carefully selecting her cookie decorations

Silas rolling out his own cookie dough!

Little Pumpkin and I working on her last bit of cookie dough.

Aunt Gail trying to find out whose tray of cookies just came out of the oven.

Grandma (Mom) joking with Avery as she delivers her tray of cookies for baking.

Charity delivering another tray for the oven.

Bob with his completed plate of decorated and iced cookies!

This year we were privileged to have Glen and Sherman join us!

Rachel, with the patience of Job, assisting Avery and Little Pumpkin in icing some cookies.

Little Pumpkin's icing technique was to finger-paint with icing from Avery's iced cookies! Special thanks to Avery for allowing her to join in like that!

Jul was the last trooper rolling out, and cutting out, cookies until all of the dough was used up!

And that is the end of our making Christmas cookies with cousins!

I have so many more pictures than this, but I tried to pick out some of the best ones to share. There were so many great photos, and my thanks to Ginny for taking over my camera for the evening!! My next post will have to be all of the extra-curricular activities that occurred when the cookie-cutting wore down! There was never a dull moment that evening!