Lisa Beth

It’s that time of year at the Beavers’ house!! Eric is all about his christmas cookie baking!! He doesn’t mess around, and he goes all out baking up a storm.  First, you must set the mood…. Christmas tree lit? check.

Christmas music with the Rat Pack playing over the surround sound speakers? check.  Coffee brewing? check.  Bottle of Duplin Christmas wine? check… (haha j/k… that’s not a cookie baking staple, we just found it when we were shopping for all the ingredients and thought it’d be fun to try.)

And of course, what is a cookie baking party without some friends to join in on the fun?  Last year, our dear friend Kelly helped us with our cookie baking, and this year she joined us as well as her room mate/our friend Anna and our friend Mike (who took most of these pictures).

We were so bummed that Eric’s mom couldn’t join us, as she was planning on coming up for the whole weekend to bake cookies and watch Christmas movies with us, and come to Hope Cafe’s Christmas party, but was unable to do so because of some bad weather forecasts.  We missed you Tammie!!!

The “first shift” was all Eric… baking his classic hershey kiss cookies and the peanut butter cup cookies…

you can almost taste them just by looking at that melty chocolate, can’t you?!

Then we watched one of our favorite newer Christmas classic movies… “Elf” with Will Ferrel.  So many funny scenes and quotable lines… kept us laughing the whole movie even though we’ve seen it so many times.

After the movie, I took over the second shift of cookie baking and mixed up my go-to Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix-in-a-bag  (I do not claim to be a pro in the kitchen by any means)…. and then we all contributed our creative talents to decorating them with colored icing.

Eric even humored me and let Mike take a Christmas picture of us by our tree  Merry Christmas from the Beavers!!!

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