Christmas cookie decorating with the in-laws

We had out visit with Gaetan's side of the family for Christmas.  It had been awhile since we had seen them and I was interested to see how the visit was going to go!  It started out a bit rocky even just for scheduling but once we settled on a date things went great!  Zoe was in town for the holiday as well, so she was able to see the kids and since the visit was relatively short and we had a lot of things to do there wasn't time for any nit picky drama.  The weather wasn't great so I knew that it was going to take them a bit longer to get here (they drive really slow when there isn't anything wrong with the weather...) but at least they let us know that they were running behind (that's just polite).  When they got here we did presents right away, because, who can keep a 2 and a 4 year old at bay when you see PRESENTS!!!  After they opened presents and played with them for a little bit I gave them their presents.  We got Ingrid this canvas artwork that said LOVE in the middle and on top it was All You Need is and on the bottom was Is All You Need (Great Beatles song right?!) It also had a double meaning because that was the song that she walked down to for at her wedding with Mike so I thought that it was perfect.  She seemed to really enjoy it.  Then I knitted Mike a tie with the U of M logo on it.. it turned out pretty good I think, and it's a little silly but he was gracious enough to wear it here.












Ingrid had requested that we stay in and hang out, which is totally what we like to do anyway!  I told her I could make snacks if she wanted to bring decorations for cookies and she was THRILLED with the idea of doing cookies together.  The kids had an absolute blast decorating cookies and eating about a pound of frosting too.  :)  Overall, the visit went great.  I didn't feel steam rolled after they left and nobody was being snarky or pouting.  It was fantastic!






















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